Bernd
04/22/2021 (Thu) 15:47:54
No.43375
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04/22/2021 (Thu) 15:47:54
No.43375
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>>43374
Yes you did.
There is neutrality and neutrality.
One of the chief boogeyman of the Ottomans was the Russian tsardom, after WWI this became the Soviet for Turkey. Turkey benefited from the German war effort, since they sought to remove that boogeyman from neighbourhood, it also made the possibility of Soviet aggression to very little. Plus, the Germans were fine with Turkey's "benign neutrality" toward them, they did not ask Turkey to enter the war on their side.
Even before the war, Germany was one of the most important trading partner of Turkey (both import and export, many times larger than the UK or the US), and Turkey supplied the strategic resource of chromite to Germany. They signed treaty of friendship, and non-aggression pact. They ignored requests of Churchill to attack the Germans, they also denied the Brits from building air bases there. They even warned the Brits not to destroy Germany (because that would strengthen the Soviet therefore endanger Turkey).
Oh yeah, Turkish statesmen, diplomats were cautious with the Germans, always alert and suspicious, and they did not care much about National Socialism, but that doesn't mean that they did not do favors toward Germany. Au contraire, they did favors to keep the Germans neutral too.
Then in 1943 as the Soviet and the Western Allies tried to cooperate, they looked ways to strengthen their own positions. The British diplomacy from the beginning of the year continued to warm Turkey to them. During various talks they also tried to involve them in the war, although in the end they were fine with Turkey's benign neutrality towards Britain and the US. They also gained more trust because during these talks the Soviet demanded Turkey to join the war and attack Germany, but the Turkish foreign politics irked even from the thought. They also sought a new possible crutch against the Soviet after the possible German demise, and when the threat of the Soviet expansionism would return.
So this change in orientation - the result of the British courtship (which began in 1939) - what Szálasi noticed, although he wrote about the neutrality triangle as a whole not specifically Turkey.
Yes you did.
There is neutrality and neutrality.
One of the chief boogeyman of the Ottomans was the Russian tsardom, after WWI this became the Soviet for Turkey. Turkey benefited from the German war effort, since they sought to remove that boogeyman from neighbourhood, it also made the possibility of Soviet aggression to very little. Plus, the Germans were fine with Turkey's "benign neutrality" toward them, they did not ask Turkey to enter the war on their side.
Even before the war, Germany was one of the most important trading partner of Turkey (both import and export, many times larger than the UK or the US), and Turkey supplied the strategic resource of chromite to Germany. They signed treaty of friendship, and non-aggression pact. They ignored requests of Churchill to attack the Germans, they also denied the Brits from building air bases there. They even warned the Brits not to destroy Germany (because that would strengthen the Soviet therefore endanger Turkey).
Oh yeah, Turkish statesmen, diplomats were cautious with the Germans, always alert and suspicious, and they did not care much about National Socialism, but that doesn't mean that they did not do favors toward Germany. Au contraire, they did favors to keep the Germans neutral too.
Then in 1943 as the Soviet and the Western Allies tried to cooperate, they looked ways to strengthen their own positions. The British diplomacy from the beginning of the year continued to warm Turkey to them. During various talks they also tried to involve them in the war, although in the end they were fine with Turkey's benign neutrality towards Britain and the US. They also gained more trust because during these talks the Soviet demanded Turkey to join the war and attack Germany, but the Turkish foreign politics irked even from the thought. They also sought a new possible crutch against the Soviet after the possible German demise, and when the threat of the Soviet expansionism would return.
So this change in orientation - the result of the British courtship (which began in 1939) - what Szálasi noticed, although he wrote about the neutrality triangle as a whole not specifically Turkey.