Soviet demands at the Potsdam Conference and Their Impact on Turkish Foreign Policy (1945-1953)
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The Soviet demands are old demands since the days of the great emperors down to the present time because of their importance for them in order to get rid of natural isolation and find an outlet for them that connects them with the world, and despite the improvement and détente in the Soviet-Turkish relationship since the establishment of the new regimes in it. However, the matter changed later, especially during the Second World War (1945-1953) and afterwards, as it turned into a conflict between the Soviet-Turkish relations, and until the latter half of the thirties, when the Russian-Turkish relations were warm and fraternal to some extent. The Turkish government of the Grand National Assembly and Bolshevik Russia promised to cooperate with each other in the Treaty of Moscow, and when the issue was raised at the Potsdam Conference, the United States said that the issue of the straits was an internal political issue related to Turkey and the Soviet Union.
Realizing that the international climate would make diplomatic control of the straits as well as Turkey in general difficult, the Soviets took steps toward thawing ties with the country in Turkey's bid to bring a sliver of the Middle East under its wing. When Turkey joined the Western-allied NATO in 1952, it fizzled out. These hopes and the Montreux Convention of 1936, with revisions, are still in effect for the time being between the successor states of the USSR and Turkey.
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