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  2. Military history of Turkey - Wikipedia

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    As late as February 1940, the British Foreign Office noted: "The Turkish Army is very short of rifles and has asked us to supply 150,000." [12] A Turkish Curtiss Falcon CW 22 aircraft, circa 1940s. The Turkish Air Force had 131 first line aircraft in 1937, of which only half were relatively modern. [12]

  3. Turkish War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Balkan Pact - Wikipedia

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    The Balkan Pact, or Balkan Entente, was a treaty signed by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia on 9 February 1934 [1] in Athens, [2] aimed at maintaining the geopolitical status quo in the region after the end of World War I.

  5. List of wars involving Turkey - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Turkey and includes conflicts such as coups, insurgencies, offensives, border and international disputes since the Turkish War of Independence in 1919. For wars before 1919, involving the Ottoman Empire, see List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire. Turkish victory Another result *

  6. History of Turkey - Wikipedia

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    Nine years later the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was established. Turkey is the only country that recognises the TRNC [95] The one-party period was followed by multi-party democracy after 1945. The Turkish democracy was interrupted by military coups d'état in 1960, 1971 and 1980. [96]

  7. History of the Republic of Turkey - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Union played a major role in supplying weapons to and financing Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's faction during the Turkish War of Independence but Turkey's followed a course of relative international isolation during the period of Atatürk's Reforms in 1920s and 1930s. International conferences gave Turkey full control of the strategic ...

  8. Turkey–Yugoslavia relations - Wikipedia

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    In the period between 1951 and 1956 some 86,380 Muslims, mostly from Kosovo and Macedonia, emigrated to Turkey, out of them 67,236 Turks, 4,394 Albanians, 13,926 Pomaks and 224 others. [3] This however did not affect the relations between the two governments in any negative way as Turkey was willing to receive the new settlers.

  9. Occupation of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    The last troops of the Allies departed from the city on 4 October 1923, and the first troops of the Ankara government, commanded by Şükrü Naili Pasha (3rd Corps), entered the city with a ceremony on 6 October 1923, which has been marked as the Liberation Day of Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul'un Kurtuluşu, Ottoman Turkish: استانبولڭ ...