The Turkish-German Alliance Comments in the German Foreign Ministry Documents 1925-1926

The published works by the diplomats and officers who served at the key points of the Turkish-German alliance in the First World War, took the main axis of the recent discussions since 1920s in both of the countries. The works that make up the content of our article are, the works of Mahmud Muhtar Pasha who was the Berlin Ambassador at the beggining of the First World War and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk‟s memoirs. In their memoirs, both Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Muhtar Pasha says that the Turkish-German alliance was inevitable for Ottoman considering to the political and military developments, but the decision of the pre-war alliance was given alone by Enver Pasha, and with the beggining of the war Ottoman army‟s preferences abondoned to the German military delegation members and generals and underlines that the decisions taken within the army are not in line with national interests. German Ambassador Rudolf Nadolny, which prevents the conversion of the alliance debates to a polemic by the press of the two countries, showed a special sensitivity since the mid 1920s developing economic relations between the two countries and established a close and constructive dialogue between them for the controversy does not get further. Based on the works exmined within the scope of our article, we can interpret the claims put forward both by Turkish and German sides as a part of the historiography of the nation states that are in the establishment phase.