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The United States' firm opposition to Soviet-backed separatist movements in Turkey and Persia led to the crushing and re-annexation of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad (1946–1947) and Azeri Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946) by Persia. [1] Turkey joined the anti-Soviet military alliance NATO in 1952. Following the death of Stalin in ...
Until the latter half of the 1930s, Soviet–Turkish relations were cordial and somewhat fraternal. At the request of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Vladimir Lenin provided crucial military and financial aid to the Turkish National Movement in its struggle against the Ottoman monarchy and Western occupiers; two million gold Imperial rubles, 60,000 rifles, and 100 artillery pieces were sent in the ...
The Soviet supply of gold and armaments to the Kemalists in 1920 to 1922 was a key factor in the latter's successful takeover of the Ottoman Empire, which had been defeated by the Triple Entente but won the Armenian campaign (1920) and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
Turkey was in no condition to fight a war with the Soviet Union, which had emerged as a superpower after the Second World War. [19] Soviet territorial claims to Turkey were supported by the Armenian Catholicos George VI and by all shades of the Armenian diaspora, including the anti-Soviet Armenian Revolutionary Federation. [19]
Turkish involvement in the Russian Civil War (1 C, 8 P) S. ... Soviet territorial claims against Turkey; Syrian Crisis of 1957 ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
Soviet territorial claims to Turkey during World War II. ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Soviet territorial claims against Turkey;
Sino-Soviet border conflict; Sixty-Four Villages East of the River; Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia; Soviet annexation of Transcarpathia; Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia; Soviet territorial claims against Turkey; Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941)
During the Cold War (1945–1991), the Turkish Straits crisis of 1945 developed over the request by Joseph Stalin for Soviet military bases in the Turkish Straits as a part of Soviet territorial claims against Turkey, which prompted the United States to declare the Truman Doctrine in 1947. [3]