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Saturday 13 November 2021
International Conference "100 Years of Russian-Turkish Relations"
A conference "100 Years of Russian-Turkish Relations" was held in Moscow from the 11th till the13th of November 2005. The event was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Treaty of Friendship and Brotherhood between Soviet Russia and Turkey and the Treaty of Kars between Turkey and the Soviet republics of the Transcaucasus, mediated by Soviet Russia.
Initially, it was planned to hold the conference in-person and remotely, but due to anti-epidemic measures, the conference was held in an online format.
The conference was organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences), the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Office of State Archives under the President of the Republic of Turkey, the Scientific Council on Oriental Studies Complex Issues of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Turkish University of Erciyes (Kayseri, Turkey), the Center for Strategic Studies of Erciyes University, the Journal of Russian Studies, as well as with the support of the Historical Heritage Committee of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum.
55 participants from Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan (27 foreign participants) made reports at the conference. In addition to the participants, the event was attended by numerous listeners, students of Russian and foreign universities and employees of the scientific organizations.
The conference was held in 6 sections:
1.“Russian-Turkish relations in the last quarter of the 1910s. Factors that determined the Russian-Turkish rapprochement and its assessments ”;
2."Cultural, religious, and social dimension of Russian-Turkish relations in the first third of the 20 century.";
3.“Russian-Turkish relations on the eve and during the First World War. The path to the Moscow and Kars treaties ";
4."The significance of the Moscow and Kars treaties in the context of world and regional politics";
5."The role of the Moscow and Kars treaties in the development of the Russian-Turkish relations";
6.“Ethno-cultural and ethno-confessional dimension of Russian-Turkish relations. The role of ethnic kinship, emigration, and diaspora”.
The the following issues were discussed at the conference:
1. Russian-Turkish relations on the eve and during the Civil War in Russia and the National Liberation Struggle in Turkey. The course of the negotiation process between the Russian and Turkish governments and its results (1920-1922).
2. Soviet material aid to Turkey and a common front against the Entente.
3. National Vow Adoption by the High National Assembly of Turkey and the problem post-war borders formation of Turkey and its neighbors.
4. The religion and ideology influence on the Russian-Turkish relations. Images of Russia and Turkey in the socio-political thought of the Eurasian region.
5. The third forces factor in the Russian-Turkish relations.
6. The humanitarian dimension of Soviet-Turkish relations. Russian emigrants in Turkey. Soviet-Turkish relations in literature and art.
7. The role of the individual in the new regional order formation. Historical biographies of the negotiators and their role in the Soviet-Turkish relations.
The conference aroused great public interest in scientific circles of Russia, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Western and Eastern Europe. The event participants and listeners gave a high assessment of its organizational level and extremely positively characterized its content. The conference became a large and important platform for discussing the historical and cultural problems of Russian-Turkish relations, scientific discussion on the most important issues in the history of Russian-Turkish relations and its role in the post-Soviet space. At the end of the conference it was decided to publish a reports collection and then to hold the event on a regular annual basis.