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Map displaying the Soviet claims on Turkey (1945–1953) According to the memories of Nikita Khrushchev, the deputy premier Lavrentiy Beria pressed Joseph Stalin to claim eastern Anatolian territory that had supposedly been stolen from Georgia by the Turks. [1]
Map showing Turkish territory claimed by the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1946. [ 29 ] The Soviet Union wished for its border with Turkey to be re-negotiated so as to benefit the Armenian and Georgian SSRs .
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 ...
The Protocol defined a "neutral zone" between the Sheikhdom of Kuwait and Sultanate of Nejd. The State of Kuwait inherited the United Kingdom's territorial claim when it gained independence in 1961. In 1965, a separation line was drawn halfway through the neutral zone; Qaruh and Umm al Maradim are north of the line.
Russian Embassy in Istanbul. Ottoman postcard. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the first state that formally recognised the Kemalist government of Turkey in March 1921 after the Republic of Armenia which signed the Treaty of Alexandropol with the Turkish revolutionaries on 2 December 1920.
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 ...
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)
Armenian and Georgian claims to Turkish Territory, British Foreign Office, May 1946. After the end of World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union made territorial claims to Turkey. Joseph Stalin pushed Turkey to cede Kars and Ardahan, thus returning the pre-World War I boundary between the Russian and Ottoman empires.