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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]
The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War-era territorial conflict between the Soviet Union and Turkey. Turkey had remained officially neutral throughout most of the Second World War . [ a ] After the war ended, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet government to institute joint military control of passage through the Turkish Straits , which ...
The Soviet Union and the new Turkish governments were outsiders to the great powers and gravitated toward each other after World War I. [1] According to Onur Işçi: Beginning in 1920, bitterness against the postwar international order drove Soviet-Turkish relations.
Turkey was in no condition to fight a war with the Soviet Union, which had emerged as a superpower after the Second World War. [19] Soviet territorial claims to Turkey were supported by the Armenian Catholicos George VI and by all shades of the Armenian diaspora, including the anti-Soviet Armenian Revolutionary Federation. [19]
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)
Some post-Soviet conflicts ended in a stalemate or without a peace treaty, and are referred to as frozen conflicts. This means that a number of post-Soviet states have sovereignty over the entirety of their territory in name only. In reality, they do not exercise full control over areas still under the control of rebel factions.
Turkish involvement in the Russian Civil War (1 C, 8 P) S. Soviet emigrants to Turkey ... Soviet territorial claims against Turkey; Syrian Crisis of 1957; T. Tan ...