Turkey Book Talk #203 – Onur İşçi, associate professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, on his article “Turkey at a Crossroads: The Soviet Threat and Postwar Realignment, 1945-1946”, published in the journal Diplomatic History.
The piece reexamines the years immediately after the Second World War, when Stalin’s Soviet Union made a series of military and territorial demands on Turkey, ultimately pushing Ankara to pursue Nato membership. The conversation also touches on the historic roots of Turkey’s present-day policy towards Moscow, combining cooperation and competition.
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Check out Onur’s previous appearance on the podcast from March 2020.
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