NACİ TİKİCİ

This article examines the four-hundred-year period of Ottoman-Iranian political relations from a different perspective and discusses the relations between the two countries on the axis of three basic principles, unlike an understanding of Sunni-Shiite, Iranian-Turanian or two Turkish dynasties. The first of these principles is the process of building a new border, which started during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim and ended during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent. The second is that the Ottoman Empire created a buffer zone between its borders and Iran and kept the Iranian elements beyond this buffer zone. The third is to organize expeditions to the Iranian lands depending on the time and conditions and to establish a security zone beyond the border. The Iranian expeditions of the Ottoman Empire in 1578, 1723 and 1905 can be shown among the most obvious examples of the process of creating a security zone on the border. All the actions of the Ottoman State in its political relations with Iran for four centuries were arrangements made to protect these three principles, and the basic policy of the state in eastern politics was to ensure that these principles continue unchanged.

Key Words: Iran, The Ottoman Empire, Borders, War, Diplomacy.