Vatikan’ın Devletleşmesi ve Türk Kamuoyu

Abstract

<p class="ql-align-justify">After the establishment of the Italian unity in the middle of the 19th century, Rome and its environs were completely under the Italian rule, and the Vatican lost its independent state status, and fell into to the Italian administration. The Vatican did not want to subject to the Italian administration, and there was a process of conflict between the state and the church through Italy’s interventions in the Vatican administration. This period, which was refered to as the Roman Question, began to soften with the accession of power in 1922 by Benito Mussolini, and ended completely with the Lateran Treaty, signed in 1929, between the Vatican&nbsp;and the Italian State. Since then, the Vatican has regained its status as an independent state. After the independence, the Vatican has tried to establish formal relations with various states - mainly European countries-, but has never been able to establish official relations with Turkey, since Turkey thinks that the principle of secularism poses a problem in terms of establishing relations with a religious state. Official relations between Turkey and the Vatican were able to start in 1960, at the end of various discussions. In this article, the Turkish public’s perspective on the Vatican’s independence, and the process of formal relations between the Vatican and Turkey will be examined.&nbsp;