{"id":824398,"date":"2024-12-05T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=824398"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:31","slug":"russia-if-turkey-never-joined-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2024\/12\/05\/russia-if-turkey-never-joined-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: if Turkey never joined NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey&#8217;s decision to join NATO in 1952 was a pivotal moment in its history and had a significant impact on its relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without NATO membership, Turkey would have been more vulnerable to Soviet influence and pressure but it would not have guaranteed a direct military confrontation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The specific dynamics of their relationship would have depended on various factors, including the changing geopolitical landscape and the leadership of both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soviet Union had historically sought control over the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits, which are crucial for shipping traffic between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1946 Stalin did demand that Turkey cede territory in Anatolia to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stalin also demanded that Turkey hand over control of the Golden Horn to the Soviet Union, so that a Soviet Military base could be built there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would have given Stalin complete control of the access to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey refused and even before NATO, the USA backed them up by sending a Naval task force to Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO membership provided Turkey with a security guarantee and deterred Soviet aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Compilation: <\/strong>M. Blucher, Wikipedia, Carnegie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s decision to join NATO in 1952 was a pivotal moment in its history and had a significant impact on its relationship with Russia. Without NATO membership, Turkey would have been more vulnerable to Soviet influence and pressure but it would not have guaranteed a direct military confrontation. The specific dynamics of their relationship would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":824400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[212,2128],"class_list":["post-824398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-nato","tag-stalin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}