Written by Sinan Levent

Abstract

Connection, between Japan in 1930s, which strove to make a new order under his leadership in Asia Pasific following feeling out of his place in the one established after World War I by westerns and Muharrem Feyzi Togay, who was the head of Pan-Turan Association, is revealed in this paper. So both contributions of Muharrem Feyzi Togay for “Cumhuriyet” Daily Newspaper” in 1930s concerning Japan and documents at Japanese Ministry of External Affairs are analysed. In accordance with materials mentioned above, Togay got in touch with Japanese Embassy in Istanbul to obtain enough and accurate information about relations among Far Eastern countries. To get data more easily from the embassy, he even gained the provisional representativeness of “Japan Times” Newspaper in Turkey. Togay also can be assumed to have seen Japan as an alternative power to Russia in Asia. Togay as a Russian Turk believed that Japan was a country, which had potential to dispose the Russian influence on Turkic people, which could enable their independence. On the other hand, Japanese Embassy in Turkey intended to benefit Togay so as to form public opinion in Turkish society in favor of Japan. In sum, political to some extent and very suggestive connection, existed between Muharrem Feyzi Togay and Japan via Japanese embassy in Turkey in 1930s.

Keywords: Muharrem Feyzi Togay; Japan in 1930s; Pan-Turanizm; Cumhuriyet Daily Newspaper

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