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Copyright Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History Spring 2017

Abstract

The absolute winners of World War II, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, started struggle of protecting and widening their own separate spheres of influence, just after the end of the war. Ad hoc allies of the war were now representing the opposite poles of the struggle for power on a global scale. The reflections of global war of two distinctive world views, represented by the capitalist USA and the communist Soviets, on the East Mediterranean and on the Middle East regions had a great influence, particularly on Turkey. The most substantial milestone of that struggle in the East Mediterranean and the Middle East was the Soviet Union's claims of territories and administration of Straits from Turkey. The Soviet claims gave rise to increase of anxieties of territorial integrity and security in Turkey. Under these anxieties, Turkey accelerated the policies to accede to the Western bloc led by the USA. However, this period was not very easy for Turkey, but it was characterized by a period of uncertainties and dominated by a sense of loneliness at the beginning. Until the declaration of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, loneliness and anxiety dominated in Turkish statesmen's mind in search of reliable ally in foreign policy.

Details

Title
2. DÜNYA SAVAŞI SONRASI SOVYET TEHDİDİ VE TÜRKİYE (1945-1946)
Author
Ataç, Kaan Kutlu
Pages
182-212
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Spring 2017
Publisher
Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
ISSN
13051458
e-ISSN
21471592
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Turkish
ProQuest document ID
1916621344
Copyright
Copyright Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History Spring 2017