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Murat Özden Uluç The 48th Regiment is a Turkish Union that fought heroically from 1912, when it was founded under the reconstructed Macedonian Vardar Army, until Hatay's reunification with the homeland. Especially in the wars he participated in between 1912-1921, he achieved successes that almost changed the course of Turkish history. In the Soroviç Victory, which was the last battle won in the Macedonian Front, in the repulsing of the Anzac troops on the Anafartalar, Chunuk Bairı and Kanlısırt fronts in Çanakkale, the Palestine Front I and II. He played a major role in the successes won against the Great British Army in the Battles of Gaza.
III. The 48th Regiment, which was abolished after most of its soldiers were captured by the British Army in the Battle of Gaza, was re-established under the Central Army of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey during the National Struggle. He is one of our troops, whose arrival at the front in the Battle of Sakarya was celebrated by the Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha with a telegram of joy and thanks. This heroic regiment of ours changed the fate of the war with their resistance on the Beylikköprü-Beştepeler defense line, which was one of the most critical points of the Sakarya Pitched Battle, at the expense of the almost complete destruction of the regiment. The 48th Regiment is also the regiment of heroic soldiers who had the honor of being the first Turkish Union to enter Hatay after years of joining the homeland of Hatay, and as a result of all these victories, it has become a symbol of national courage and resistance in Turkish history with the medals affixed to its flag.
Mesut Hakkı Caşın No war can be understood independently of the multi-layered accumulation of historical, political, ethnic, religious, economic, cultural and commercial interests that prepared it.
In this context, this work named World War II; While pursuing to bring to light the intertwined and complex causes of the Second World War that are beyond the visible, it also examines the background of the effect of economic and political crises on the strengthening of totalitarian regimes, together with its intricate causes.
In addition, while reconsidering the causes and consequences of the Second World War, as the bloodiest conflict of the twentieth century, eighty years later, it also sheds light on its complex connection with the problems eighty years later, enabling us to understand the hot and cold war potential of power relations in today's world.
The thousands of documented photographs included in the book, on the other hand, will memorize both the tools and ammunition of the war, as well as the horror and destructiveness of the war, as a documentary film.
Abdurrahman İlhan, Arzu Erman, Bilal Karabulut, Doğacan Başaran, Elif Günal, Emre Ozan, H. Mustafa Eravcı, Kadir Ertaç Çelik, Mehmet Seyfettin Erol, Mücahide Nihal Engel, Naime Yüksel Kayaçağlayan, Nuri Salık, Sayim Türkman, Serpil Güdül Throughout history, the Middle East has never lost its charm due to its strategic location and the political and economic expectations of global powers. The Middle East, which experienced a stable period during the rule of the Ottoman Empire (1517-1917), first came under the control of England and France with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, and then the USSR and the USA during the "Cold War" Period. It has been a field of contention in the political and military fields of the United States.
This second book, which was prepared as a continuation of the previous book "Middle East Perspective I", sheds light on the history of the Middle East, again with the contributions of many academicians, on the political, military and economic events experienced by the Middle East countries in the historical process.