GREAT POWERS AND THE STRAITS: FROM LAUSANNE TO MONTREUX

Year 1994, Issue: 24, 57 - 86, 01.05.1994

Mensur Akgün

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000150

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Abstract

GREAT POWERS AND THE STRAITS: FROM LAUSANNE TO MONTREUX

Abstract

Since the bcginning of the 19th century, the territories of the
Ottoman Empire have been a bone of contention for the Great Powers. The
so-called "sick man of Europc" had occupied the thoughts of numerous
statesmen in Europe. The Balkans attracted the Russians and Austrians while
Egypt and the Levant had always whetted British and French appetites. But
the rifts existing among those povvers and the diplomatic maneuvers of the
Porte saved the Empire from annihilation. If the Porte had any capacity to
manipulate the outcome of events, it was indeed, as Ahmet Şükrü Esmer
(1947) aptly claimed, grounded on the question of the Straits

Keywords

GREAT POWER, THE STRAIT, LAUSANNE TO MONTREUX