‘A Friendly Neutral’: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War

Warren Dockter

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2021, vol. 23, issue 6, 872-895

Abstract: By utilizing published and unpublished speeches, memoranda, and letters, this article examines Churchill’s influence on Anglo Turkish relations during the Second World War resituating Churchill in the diplomatic history of Anglo-Turkish relations. By exploring Churchill’s nineteenth-century youth and background, this article will reveal that Churchill attitudes and views of an Anglo/Turkish alliance in the Second World War was shaped by the context of nineteenth-century geostrategic politics like the ‘Great Game’ and the ‘Eastern Question’

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1986778

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