DİPLOMASİNİN KAPISINI ARALAYAN BİR GÜÇ OLARAK SİLAHLI KUVVETLER: ALMAN DEMOKRATİK CUMHURİYETİ’NİN AFRİKA VE ORTADOĞU’YA ASKERİ DESTEK SAĞLAYARAK GERÇEKLEŞTİRDİĞİ DİPLOMATİK ATILIMLAR

Yıl 2026, Sayı: Özel Sayı, 1 - 33, 24.03.2026

Klaus Storkmann

https://doi.org/10.58685/dsd.1616737

https://izlik.org/JA53HP29EX

Öz

Bu makalenin temel argümanı, Doğu Almanya hükümetinin Batı Almanya’nın diplomatik ablukasına karşı diplomatik bir atılım gerçekleştirmek için önemli bir araç olarak askeri destek sunduğunu kanıtlamaktır. 1949’da kurulduktan sonra, Alman Demokratik Cumhuriyeti , Sovyetler Birliği ve uydu devletleri dışında hiçbir ülke tarafından diplomatik olarak tanınmadı. Bunun nedeni Batı Alman hükümetinin tüm Almanya’yı ve tüm Almanları diplomatik olarak temsil etme iddiasıydı. 1950’lerde ve 1960’larda, Doğu Berlin’deki hükümet bu isme layık diplomatik ilişkiler kurmak için çok zaman ve enerji harcadı. Ortadoğu’ya ek olarak, Doğu Berlin’in bakış açısından, 1960’dan sonra Afrika’da hızla art arda ortaya çıkan yeni devletler, uluslararası dışlanmanın üstesinden gelmek için en umut verici fırsatları sundular. Özellikle askeri kanallardan geçen yol umut verici görünüyordu. Bu ülkelerdeki ordunun önemi göz önüne alındığında, özellikle askeri temasların gelişmekte olan ülkelere karşı GDR dış politikası için büyük önem taşıdığı açıktır. Bu makale, Doğu Almanya’nın Zanzibar, Tanzanya, Gine ve en önemlisi Mısır için askeri yardım ve silah teslimatı örneği ile bu kilit işlevi kanıtlamaktadır. Nasır’ın Mısır’ı ideal olarak kendisini Doğu Almanya’daki diplomatik ve askeri ilerlemeler için bir muhatap olarak sundu. Nasır, Batı Almanya’nın İsrail ile daha yakın ilişkilerine şüpheyle baktı. 1967’deki Altı Gün Savaşı’nda, Doğu Berlin’deki hükümet, Mısır’ın acilen ihtiyaç duyduğu silahları tedarik ederek büyük bir diplomatik atılım elde etme şansı buldu.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Mısır , Diplomatik ilişkiler , Diplomasi Aracı Olarak Askeri Güç , Küresel Soğuk Savaş , Almanya Demokratik Cumhuriyeti (Doğu Almanya) , Federal Almanya Cumhuriyeti (Batı Almanya)

Etik Beyan

Batı-Dışı Diplomasi (Non-Western Diplomacies) özel sayısı için hazırlanan bu makale, yazarın Doğu Almanya’nın (DAC) Küresel Güney devletlerine sağladığı askeri yardımlar üzerine kaleme aldığı ve 2012 yılında yalnızca Almanca olarak yayımlanan doktora tezinden seçilmiş bölümlere dayanmaktadır: Storkmann, Klaus. 2012. Geheime Solidarität: Militärbeziehungen und Militärhilfen der DDR in die “Dritte Welt”. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag. Söz konusu araştırma, bu çalışma ile ilk kez İngilizce dilinde daha geniş bir uluslararası dinleyici kitlesinin erişimine sunulmaktadır.

Destekleyen Kurum

German Armed Forces Center of Military History and Social Science and German Armed Forces Center for languages

Teşekkür

Almanca metinlerin İngilizceye çevrilmesindeki katkılarından dolayı, Alman Silahlı Kuvvetleri Askerî Tarih ve Sosyal Bilimler Merkezi (ZMSBw) bünyesindeki Dil Merkezi Ofisi'nden Sayın Birgit Krüger’e teşekkürlerimi sunarım.

ARMED FORCES AS A DOOR OPENER FOR DIPLOMACY: DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGHS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC BY PROVIDING MILITARY SUPPORT TO AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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Öz

This article will prove how the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) used military support as a key tool to break through the West German diplomatic blockade. After the foundation of the GDR in 1949, no country in the world except for the Soviet Union and their satellites recognized this new state diplomatically. This was due to the West German government’s claim to sole representation of Germany and all Germans. From the GDR perspective, it was primarily the Middle East and the states in Africa that emerged after 1960 which offered the most likely chances to overcome international isolation. The employment of military channels seemed to be particularly promising. The fact that military contacts played an essential role in GDR foreign policy toward developing countries was obvious given the importance of the military in those states. This article attests to this key function using the military assistance and weapons deliveries of the GDR for Zanzibar, Tanzania, Guinea and especially Egypt as examples. Nasser’s Egypt was an ideal recipient of both diplomatic and military East German approaches. Nasser viewed the increasingly closer relations between West Germany and Israel with suspicion. The Six-Day War of 1967 finally opened a chance for the regime in East Berlin to achieve a major diplomatic breakthrough by delivering weapons that Egypt desperately needed.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Egypt , Global Cold War , Military as Diplomacy. , German Democratic Republic (GDR , East Germany) , Federal Rebuplic of Germany (FRG West Germany)

Etik Beyan

This article, prepared for the special issue on Non-Western Diplomacies, is based on selected excerpts from the author’s dissertation on military assistance provided by the GDR for states of the Global South, which was published in German as: Storkmann, Klaus. 2012. Geheime Solidarität: Militärbeziehungen und Militärhilfen der DDR in die “Dritte Welt”. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag. This research is now being made available to a wider international audience in the English language for the first time.

Destekleyen Kurum

German Armed Forces Center of Military History and Social Science and German Armed Forces Center for languages

Teşekkür

Thanks to Mrs. Birgit Krüger from the German Armed Forces Center for languages´ office at the German Armed Forces Center of Military History and Social Science for translating from German into English.

Kaynakça

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