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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]
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 joined the anti-Soviet NATO military alliance in 1952. [22] 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 Middle Eastern country and its alliance partner, the United States. [21] The Soviet Union continued to honor the ...
Soviet territorial claims against Turkey This page was last edited on 25 October 2019, at 21:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Once fearing the Soviet Union, Turkey now is out of step with NATO policies in its friendliness with Moscow, buying Russia's weapons and refusing to join U.S.-led sanctions against the Russian ...
Formation of the Soviet Union and the Republic of Turkey in 1922 and 1923, respectively; Normalization of relations until the Cold War; Territorial changes: Collapse and dissolution of both empires during World War I. Ottomans permanently lose Crimea, Azov, their territories in current Ukraine, most of the Caucasus and Bessarabia
Category: Soviet Union–Turkey relations. ... Soviet territorial claims against Turkey; Syrian Crisis of 1957; T. Tan incident; Treaty of Kars; Treaty of Moscow (1921)