TURKEY-HUNGARY RELATIONS IN THE COLD WAR ERA

Turkish and Hungarian people relationship is based on a long and traditional friendship. Compact researches about Hungarian language and history began in 19th century led to birth of Turan Tacitc and Science of Turcology. Studies of these two disciplines intervened to strength cultural bridges. Turkey and Hungary, who fought as allies in World War I and established their national states after the fall of the empire, have established the semi-offical relations since 1920s and offical relations on December 18, 1923 with the Friendship Treaty. During Ataturk's era, relations between the two countries was quite busy and friendly. Despite taking place in opposing penetrating forces during the bipolar system aka Cold War, two countries maintained their relations based on traditional friendship. In this study we tried to find the two centuries relations in the political, economic and cultural after being classified as the ancient frendship and Turcology/Hungarology attempted to examine how it has continued over the platforms.