Turkey-USSR Relatıons In The Cold War And Turkısh Press (Untıl Stalın’s Death)
Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Türkiye-Sovyet Rusya İlişkileri Ve Türk Basını (Stalin’in Ölümüne Kadar)

Author : İlyas TOPÇU
Number of pages : 94-110

Abstract

Developing Turkish-Soviet relations during liberation war years after World War I was made permanent by friendship and non-aggression agreement at 1925. Depending on changings and developments during and after the World War II, the Soviet Government announced to Turkey that they will not extend friendship agreement which was signed in 1925 and extended for ten years in (1929, 1931) and last in 1935. After that they announced their claims for changes at the straits and the Caucasus border to Turkey by diplomatic note. Since this date, Turkish-Soviet relations has gone on a strained line. The main fact that direct Turkish foreign policy in this period is the pressure of Soviet’s that based on their claims about land on Turkey and station at the straits. Therefore, to develop relations with West and membership of NATO is the most important priority of Turkish foreign policy. In the said period, Turkish politicians, press and public had behaved bodily against to Soviet threat.

Keywords

Soviet Russia, Cold War, USA, Straits, Press

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