Abstract
AS AN AFGHAN INTELLECTUAL MAHMUD TARZI KHAN’S EFFECTS ON TURKISH-AFGHAN RELATIONS
His activities for modernizing the geography in which he existed and lived as an Afghan intellectual during his life, and his contributions to the building of a friendship bridge between the Turkish nation and the Afghan nation are examined through historical periods. This friendship bridge built with the initiatives and contributions of Tarzi was further strengthened thanks to the personalities of Atatürk and Emanullah Khan. Thus, Turkey and Afghanistan started simultaneous initiatives on development and progress. The greatest quality that distinguishes Tarzi from his contemporaries is that he analyzed political events and historical developments with a great meticulousness and he shared with others the information he obtained from those analyses in his works. Tarzi issued the first effective newspaper of the region, called “Seraj-ul Akhbar/The Torch of News”. Publishing works with a severe style in the Seraj-ul Akhbar newspaper as an ardent anti-imperialist, Tarzi is described as pro-Turkish and anti-English due to the ideas he defended. In this study, the effects of Tarzi on Turkish-Afghan relations will be analyzed.
Keywords
Turkish-Afghan Relations, Modernization, Imperialism, Cooperation.
