The Mosul Question and the Turkish republic: Before and after the Frontier Treaty, 1926
Middle Eastern Studies, cilt.42, sa.1, ss.123-132, 2006 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 42 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2006
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00263200500399611
- Dergi Adı: Middle Eastern Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.123-132
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
To sum up, the Mosul Vilayet was part of the Ottoman Empire until it came under British occupation in 1918 following the First World War. After the War of Independence, the new Turkish Republic considered Mosul one of the crucial issues determined in the National Pact. British foreign policy conducted according to British economic interests in the Middle East, eventually shaped the fate of the region. Despite constant resistance, Britain managed to bring the issue into the international arena, scaling it down to a frontier problem between Turkey and Iraq. In the Frontier Treaty of 1926, Turkey received 10 per cent of the Iraqi government's royalty payments for twenty-five years. From 1931 to 1952 Turkey received royalty payments regularly. There were two problems, first, the unpaid years, as noted in Table 1, and insufficient payments regarding the calculations of the 10 per cent of the royalties of the Iraqi government after the new concession agreements. Turkey did not create an international issue about this problem. There were unpaid years, when Turkey did not receive these payments. Since then, some assertions have been made in the Turkish media that Turkey has not received its share of the Mosul petroleum, that it should receive much more payment from the share of the Iraqi government's royalties. Turkey, however, has not pursued the issue in the interest of foreign policy towards its neighbouring countries and closed the file. © 2006 Taylor & Francis.