Soğuk Savaş Döneminin Başında Türk-Amerikan Yakınlaşması ve bir JAMMAT Görevlisinin Anılarında Ankara

Abstract

The Joint American Military Mission to Aid Turkey (JAMMAT), established in 1947 for a task to coordinate the military aids to Turkey was a modernization program undertaken by the United States at the beginning of the Cold War. The main object of the United States was to prevent a new interventionist government (USSR) as a result of a formation taken place due to the Cold War. This study aims to evaluate the book titled “Memories of 1950 in Ankara, Turkey” written by Elizabeth McNeill-Leicester, who was commissioned in JAMMAT in 1950 and spent one year in Ankara. Elizabeth McNeill made her career in the U.S. Foreign Service. McNeill served in the Department of Army Civilian (DAC) in Occupied Japan. She was then sent to Ankara. After Ankara, she served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Among her services in Senegal and Colombia she studied French Civilization at the Sorbonne University. McNeill arrived in Ankara at the end of 1949 and remained in Ankara until the end of 1950. During this time, the author has taken an attitude criticizing Ankara and the public. She, at every opportunity, has said that the United States helped many aspects of Turkey. Therefore, it was stressed that Turkey should be grateful to the Americans. This JAMMAT officer wrote down her observations in detail during her stay in Ankara. This book, published in 2009 and not yet translated into Turkish, helps us to see the Ankara of 1950’s from the point of view of a woman.