Britain and Turkey in the Middle East : politics and influence in the early Cold War era / Mustafa Bilgin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bilgin, Mustafa.

Series:

Library of international relations (Series) ; 32.

Library of international relations ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Turkey.

Great Britain.

International relations.

Turkey.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-1964.

Turkey--Foreign relations--1918-1960.

Physical Description:

x, 323 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies ; New York : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

'Britain and Turkey in the Middle East' is the first book to understand the development of the Cold War in the Middle East by exploring the Turkish case and is crucial to grasping the nature of Western strategy in general and British and Turkish strategy in particular during this period. In the first work documenting Anglo-Turkish relations in the Middle East in the early Cold War period, Mustafa Bilgin identifies two very distinct stages in the relationship between Britain and Turkey. Before 1952 Turkey relied heavily on Britain to protect it from the ' Soviet menace' . In return for Britain' s support, Turkey acted as an honest broker in Britain' s increasingly difficult relations with key Middle Eastern states such as Egypt, Iran and Iraq. However, Turkey' s realisation that it could not rely on Britain, encouraged by Britain' s blocking of Turkish membership of NATO in 1952, led to a new alliance between Turkey and the US.

Contents:

1 Anglo-Turkish Relations in the Middle East: The Historical Background to 1945 11

2 The Emergence of the Soviet Threat in Anglo-Turkish Relations (1945-47) 242

3 Britain, Turkey and the Middle East (1945-47) 75

4 The Question of Palestine in Anglo-Turkish Relations (1947-50) 107

5 An Active Foreign Policy: Turkey's Involvement in the British Defence Plans and Her Admission to NATO (1950-52) 138

6 The Fall of the British Regional Defence Plans and the Rise of Turkish 'Triangular Strategy' (1952-53) 180

Conclusion: A General Evaluation of Anglo-Turkish Relations 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-313) and index.

ISBN:

9781845113506

1845113500

OCLC:

77013057