Abstract
The disease and death of Ataturk, the pioneer of the Balkan Pact, caused deep grief among the Balkan states. From January 1938, when Ataturk’s disease occurred, the representatives of the foreign states who were in Turkey kept a close eye on Ataturk’s state of health. Due to the fact that Romania was Turkey’s ally as a result of the Balkan Pact, its representatives also sent information to Bucharest through reports during the course of Ataturk’s disease. The Romanian diplomats, who started presenting in their reports the first pieces of information about Ataturk’s disease in April 1938, followed its course closely and transmitted all the news about its progress to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this article, the reports sent by the Romanian Embassy in Ankara and the Romanian Consulate in Istanbul to the Romanian government concerning the course of Ataturk’s disease and the funeral after his death are examined based on the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Romania.
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