Description
The “Eastern Question” question discourse has extensively been analysed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This paper focuses on the 1920s when the Eastern Question is largely assumed that it was settled. The establishment of the Republic of Turkey with the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 is considered as the solution of the Eurocentric issue of the addressing the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Using previously unexplored archival sources, this paper historicises the “Eastern Question” of the 1920s, when a new order was formed. It argues that the discourse should be understood as an Orientalist construct that evolved and endured in the Western public discourse.
