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The Franco-Ottoman alliance, also known as the Franco-Turkish alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between Francis I, King of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was one of the longest-lasting and most important foreign alliances of France , and was particularly influential during ...
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, also Franco-Turkish alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the king of France Francis I and the Turkish sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent. The objective for Francis I was to find an ally against the Habsburgs (see French–Habsburg rivalry and Ottoman–Habsburg wars).
Turkey's relation with the Arab World and Iran has been strained due to its recognition to Israel in 1949, and eventual alliance with them during Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. [8] [1] This subsequently led to overt Syrian support for Palestinian and Armenian militant operations against Turkish diplomats abroad until 1990. [9] [10] [11]
Francis I (left) and Suleiman I (right) initiated the Franco-Ottoman alliance. They never met in person; this is a composite of two separate paintings by Titian , circa 1530 Selim I's son Suleiman I became known as " Suleiman the Magnificent " for his long string of military conquests [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Suleiman consolidated Ottoman possessions in ...
The Franco–Turkish War, known as the Cilicia Campaign (French: La campagne de Cilicie) in France and as the Southern Front (Turkish: Güney Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey, was a series of conflicts fought between France (the French Colonial Forces and the French Armenian Legion) and the Turkish National Forces (led by the Turkish provisional government after 4 ...
The Franco-American alliance first flourished in Newport, R.I., helping to win the U.S. to win independence.
Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for "prestige, gravitas and panache," said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U.S ...
Franco-Turkish Pact 1921 (Treaty of Ankara) Treaty of Sèvres border between Turkey and Syria, 1920 The Ankara Agreement (1921) (or the Accord of Ankara; Franklin-Bouillon Agreement; Franco-Turkish Agreement of Ankara, Turkish: Ankara Antlaşması, French: Traité d'Ankara) was signed on 20 October 1921 [1] at Ankara (also known as Angora) between France and the Grand National Assembly of ...