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Turkey committed 8 of 173 aircraft in the NATO force, [6] flew 2.2 percent of sorties [7] Dayton Agreement, deployment of NATO-led IFOR; Süleyman Demirel: Tansu Çiller: Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1997) KDP Turkey: PUK PKK: Ceasefire . Peace treaty between the KDP and the PUK; Süleyman Demirel: Necmettin Erbakan. Mesut Yılmaz. Kosovo War (1998 ...
Contiguous transcontinental states are those countries that have one continuous or immediately adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary.More specifically, they contain a portion of their territory on one continent and a portion of their territory on another continent, while having these two portions connected via a natural geological land connection (e.g. Russia) or the ...
War on terror; Timeline of the Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (1978–2015) List of Turkish operations in northern Iraq; Turkish intervention in Libya (2020–present) Turkish invasion of Cyprus; Turkish War of Independence; Turkish–Armenian War; Turkish-Syrian Border Clashes (1938)
Turkish War of Independence; Part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923 in the aftermath of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Delegation gathered in Sivas Congress to determine the objectives of the Turkish National Movement; Turkish civilians carrying ammunition to the front; Kuva-yi Milliye infantry; Turkish horse cavalry in chase; Turkish Army's capture of Smyrna; troops in Ankara's Ulus ...
Turkey joined the anti-Soviet military alliance NATO in 1952. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government renounced its territorial claims on Turkey, as part of an effort to promote friendly relations with the transcontinental country and its alliance partner, the United States. [6]
Turkey is the only country in the world to have operated tanks from practically every major player in World War II, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and France. [9]
Emerging from World War II, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established by 10 European countries, the United States and Canada to form a bulwark against the communist-ruled Soviet Union.
The occupation of Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul'un işgali) or occupation of Constantinople (12 November 1918 – 4 October 1923), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended Ottoman participation in the First World War.