@chharoonahmad
Then the answer is IMO no. The Muslim League founders as well as Jinnah were never supportive of the Khilafat-Non-Cooperation movement. On the other hand, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Ali Brothers e.t.c who were nationalists till their death were the founders of the movement. The close Pakistani-Turkish relatonship has more to do with the Cold war era military alliances that Pakistan built. So when Pakistan became a member of Baghdad Pact and later CENTO, a close relationship was forged with Turkey on the military to military level. In both countries military played a predominant role in politics. And this affected political relations as well at the govt. level. At people-to-people level I am sure many countries including India on average will have goodwill towards the Pakistani people if not towards the govt./establishment. And so it would be for Turkey as well.
Yes, I have also read that Jinnah was not in favour of this Movement. So, in your opinion the Khilafat movement has nothing to do with the cordial relationship?
I was wondering in what sense you used the word "nationalist" in the above context. Perhaps, you meant that they were in favour of united India or were of the thinking to see all the Muslim countries as one nation?
However, with a more democratic Turkey and Turkish politics less dominated with the military, the fall of Soviet Union and the AKPs goal of having zero problems with everyone Turkish relations have improved a lot with India.
Turkey still takes the relationship with Pakistan very seriously. I think AKP is (or, perhaps never was) on good terms with Turkish army. So, if the base of this relationship is purely because of historical connections between the militaries of both countries, then I don't think AKP would like Pakistan relation much.
By the way, in the past Pakistanis didn't require a visa for Turkey but then it was made mandatory on the insistence of the Pakistan government and the prime reason for this insistence was human trafficking.
If I remember correctly, the Turkish position is no longer the implementation of UN resolutions on Kashmir which it kept stating till the 90s but more towards bilateral resolution of Kashmir between India and Pakistan keeping Kashmir aspirations in mind which is ostensibly closer to the Indian point of view.
But Turkey is still very much on the side of Pakistan. About a year or so ago there was some kind of conference about Afghanistan in Turkey. And India wasn't invited there. Turkey has been trying to establish good connections almost with every Asian country.
Please note that I'm a person of limited knowledge and in no way I'm trying to contradict the information in your post. It's simply a way of learning for me and we all learn in different ways!
Thank you for all your help, and especially time.
Regards
Haroon
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