Added: 16.09.2024 22:38:00



"Has an MP from Lechistan arrived yet?", these words were expected to rain throughout the period of captivity whenever an authoritative presentation of diplomats took place at the Sultan's court. This simple motion by the Ottoman Empire, as if contrary to undeniable facts, gives the global community the knowing that it does not accept that the Republic does not exist.

Don't be delusional. Turkey at the end of the 18th century did not pity Poland's fate, or at least it was not the main motive for its action, which, from our perspective, frequently seems very beneficial. The full thing was about politics, or geopolitics.

In the 17th century, the Republic and the Ottoman Empire were on a collision course. The interests of both countries clashed in the Danube countries and in Ukraine. Polish-Lithuanian-Cossack troops proved to be the only ones that could defeat the Turks on land. This was at least twice under Chocim, later under Vienna and the Parkans. The Cossacks approached the Turkish capital. On the another hand, the Turks captured the most powerful fortress of the Republic in Kamieniec Podolski, and the Russian lands regularly invaded the Tatars.

However, competition with the Republic of Istanbul was much more bearable than if it had a much more powerful opponent against it, with much greater possible than Poland and Lithuania. For this reason, even in the “war” of the 17th century was the period erstwhile Turkey looked at the Polish-Lithuanian state more favorably, and it was a time... erstwhile it had the biggest problems. At the same time, erstwhile we had to fight the Swedes, the Moscals, the Hungarians, and the rebellious Cossacks, the Crimean Khan reached out to us. Again, not from a good heart, but due to the fact that the fall of the Republic of Poland caused a instability of geopolitical balance in the region and a deadly threat to Crimea, and further consequences for the full Ottoman Empire.

Turkey has pursued a consistent policy in this respect. It was in her interest to keep at their borders respective weaker, preferably quarreling opponents than 1 powerful. Therefore, for years the sultan court has been afraid about any reinforcement at the expense of Austria's Poland, and in peculiar Russia, which extended to Ukrainian lands could seriously endanger Turkish estates on the Black Sea. Istanbul so wanted the territory of the Republic of Poland to be free of Russian troops and Russian influences.

Therefore, since the 18th century we have observed a Turkish policy of supporting the independency of the Republic, and even as it is strong in the global arena, so that it can dress Russia in the region. A clear example of this is the most important, but forgotten today, Treaty of Prussia of 12 July 1711. The Russian Army was then surrounded by the Turks and forced to accept hard conditions of peace, in which, among another things, they undertook to decision their troops out of the country and not interfere in the interior affairs of the country. In the following years, Istanbul constantly sought Russia to comply with these provisions. In 1768, in the face of the almost authoritative transformation of the Republic of Poland into a Russian protectorate, Turkey decided to start even a war with the Tsar State, which went into past as a “Polish war”.

The fight to improve its geopolitical position led to the creation of a legend of an highly pro-Polish state. Istanbul's advocacy was sought by Polish independency activists. It was on Turkish dirt that anti-abuse plots, armed organizations, were attempted to make legions. Adampol, established in the mid-19th century by Polish refugees, is simply a mark of this.

Turkish policy on non-recognition, otherwise unlawful, of the partition treaties was correct, albeit ineffective. The paradox is that the Republic of Poland has contributed to the serious weakening of the power of the Ottoman Empire, and thus could not effectively defy its partitions. If Istanbul had a stronger position, Russia would have been more hard to subdue the Polish-Lithuanian state.






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