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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 ...
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 ...
Turkey: Republic of Ararat: Victory. Revolt suppressed; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: İsmet İnönü: Dersim massacre (1937–1938) Turkey: Kurdish Alevi rebels Victory. Revolt suppressed; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: İsmet İnönü. Celâl Bayar. World War II (1939–1945) Turkish declaration of war on Germany and Japan United States Soviet Union ...
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.
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
Soviet sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe with border changes resulting from invasion and military operations of World War II. During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
20: The Georgian Uprising of Texel ends, concluding all World War II conflicts in the Netherlands. 21: SS Commander Heinrich Himmler , attempting to pass with a forged identity as a common soldier, is arrested at a checkpoint manned by liberated Soviet POWs acting under command of British forces.