LAJOS KOSSUTH VE MACAR MÜLTECİLER

Özet

Türkler ve Macarlar tarih sahnesinde en eski zamanlardan beri yakın ilişki kurmuşlardır. 16.

Abstract

The Turks and the Hungarians have established close relationships since the earliest times inthe history scene. In the 16th century, the Ottomans conquered Hungary and the country was underTurkish rule for over 150 years. After the dramatic defeat in 1683 in Vienna, the Ottomans lostHungary and soon after Hungarians came under the domination of Catholic Austria. Despite a fewfailed attempts in the previous decades, the Hungarian War of Independence, which was initiated bythe Hungarians to liberate the Austrian sovereignty and oppression, began on 12 March, 1848.Although the anti‐Austrian struggles were successful at first, the victories won were notpermanent. As the revolutionaries lost all their hopes, they had to take refuge in the OttomanEmpire on 11 August, 1849. Lajos Kossuth, the leader of the revolutionaries, wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid when he arrived in the border town of Orsova and demanded asylumin the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans opened their doors to the Hungarians they had knownfor centuries.The event which passed in to the history as the event of “Hungarian Refugees” wonappreciation both in European countries and among Hungarians due to the renunciative attitudeand a successful diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, the 19th‐century passed into history asthe century of trust and intimacy between the Hungarians and Turks. Hungarian refugees havelong maintained their gratitude for the Ottoman Empire, which embraced them on their hard days,and they have often expressed these feelings in their memories. In this article, the heroic benevolenceof revolutionary leader Lajos Kossuth and the people of two countries will be examined and thereflections of this historical event in Hungary will be dealt with.