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摘要
本文主要讨论1940-1944年芬兰与土耳其的关系。虽然土耳其早在1918年就承认芬兰的独立,并于1926年与芬兰建立外交关系,但芬兰直到1940年才在安卡拉设立外交使团。两国关系的长期性主要是由于芬兰在土耳其的利益缺乏基础(政治或经济)。在苏芬战争(1939-1940)和欧洲战争之后,形势发生了急剧变化,不可避免地需要更多的信息来评估正在发生的进程。芬兰特使A. A. Yrjö-Koskinen报告的内容使人能够想象土耳其处于敌对双方不断施加政治压力的极其困难的局势。从土耳其国家和军事领导人的角度来看,世界大战中任何一方的胜利都对土耳其构成了威胁。在现实中,Yrjö-Koskinen作为芬兰外交使团负责人的角色被简化为收集一些关于世界事件的混乱信息,并不总是伴随着他自己的分析或评论。与此同时,特使向芬兰外交部提交的报告显示,土耳其对发展与芬兰的关系没有任何明显的兴趣。
Finnish-Turkish Relations as Reported by Envoy Yrjö-Koskinen
This article focuses on Finland’s relations with Turkey in 1940–1944. Although Turkey recognized Finland’s independence as early as 1918 and established diplomatic relations with Finland in 1926, Finland did not have a diplomatic mission in Ankara until 1940. The protracted nature of the relations was mainly determined by the lack of a basis (political or economic) for Finland’s interest in Turkey. A sharply changed situation following the Soviet-Finnish war (1939–1940) and the war in Europe inevitably required additional information for evaluation of the processes taking place. Neutral Turkey could provide such an opportunity even by virtue of the fact that the Finnish diplomatic representative was able to contact with diplomats of both Axis and Western powers (with the British Embassy before relations with Finland were severed by England in 1943). The content of the reports of the Finnish envoy A. A. Yrjö-Koskinen enable to imagine the extremely difficult situation of Turkey, which was under constant political pressure from the opposing sides. From the point of view of the Turkish state and military leadership, the victory of either side in the World War posed a risk to Turkey. In reality, Yrjö-Koskinen’s role as the head of Finland’s diplomatic mission was reduced to collecting somewhat chaotic information about world events, not always accompanied by his own analyses or comments. At the same time, the envoy’s reports to the Finnish Foreign Ministry showed the lack of any evident Turkish interest in the development of relations with Finland.