Abstract
The Türkiye Seljuks managed to leave their mark on the medieval Anatolian Turkish history with their struggles against the attacks of the Crusaders known as the “Crusades” to end the existence of Islam and Turks. After losing the capital Iznik in the Crusade of 1097, Sultan I. Kilij Arslan tried to protect the survival of the state and ensure the Turks to be permanent in Anatolia with the diplomatic initiatives he established against the Crusaders. Sultan I. Kilij Arslan, who opposed attacks of the Crusader with great courage and clever diplomacy, tried to do everything that needed to be done in the struggle for survival. In this article, the reasons for the I. Crusade, the political establishments with which the Türkiye Seljuk State had diplomatic
relations, the diplomacy carried out with Byzantium for the surrender of Iznik in the Crusade of 1097, the issue of diplomatic relations established by Sultan I. Kilij Arslan with other Turkish states, principalities and emirs against the Crusades of 1097 and 1101 will be considered and the destruction of the Crusader armies in Merzifon, Konya and Eregli as a result of the successes achieved in these relations will be examined.
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