ABSTRACT
The impact of the Iranian Revolution was different in the West than in the Soviet Union; it was different in the Gulf than in Muslim North Africa. Even the term Western would have to be qualified by the distinction between what we know as Western Europe and the United States. In Turkey the era ended with a military takeover on 12 September 1980—ten days before the start of the Iran-Iraq War. By the end of the nineteenth century, there was a proliferation of groups and movements opposed to the increasing economic and cultural penetration by the West—an opposition reflected in the Great Tobacco Boycott of 1891-1892 in Iran. Until 1973, Iran and Turkey had a fairly stable and predictable relationship, mostly within the confines of Central Treaty Organization and Regional Cooperation and Development. The Oztorun affair has an intimate bearing on Turkish-Iranian relations, thus demonstrating, once again, how intricately interwoven domestic and foreign policies can be.
