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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 (1946–1953) 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 .
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.
The treaty created a new boundary between Turkey and Soviet Armenia, defined by the Akhurian (Arpachay) and Aras rivers. Turkey obtained the territory of the former Kars oblast of the Russian Empire, including the cities of Kars, Ardahan, and Oltu, Lake Çıldır and the ruins of Ani. [1]
The next conflict between Russia and Turkey began 100 years later as part of the struggle for the territory of Ukraine. While Russia conquered Left-bank Ukraine after the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) , the Ottoman Empire, in the course of the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) , spread its rule over all of Right-bank Ukraine with the support ...
Location map. Politics portal; Soviet Union portal; Turkey portal ... Ambassadors of Turkey to the Soviet Union (6 P) B. Soviet Union–Turkey border (3 C, 1 P) R.
And so in 1952, Turkey joined NATO, hoping to bolster its aspiration to a Western identity and to ensure its security, especially against an ascending Soviet Union. It was the first expansion of ...
Disputed territory occupied by Eritrea following withdrawal of Qatari peacekeepers in June 2017. [4] [5] Alternatively transliterated as the Dumaira Mountains. [4] Glorioso Islands France Madagascar Comoros: De facto a part of the French overseas territory of the French Southern Territories. Hala'ib Triangle and Bir Tawil Egypt Sudan [6]