Oğul Tuna
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181 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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It is connecting Black Sea and Mediterranean, Russia and West, Islam and Christianity.
And that's why it was popular just after the Second World War as it is today.
Today it is bordering more than, I think, three ongoing conflicts in Iran, in Gaza and in Ukraine.
So it has been a very important pillar of any kind of security order, architecture of security that is thought to be found.
If you want to construct a security order,
against Russia or Soviet, then Soviet Union, against Iran or then, I don't know, let's say Iraq, Egypt, whatever it was, you had to have Turkey together with you.
Same goes for Turkish political decision makers.
They were facing...
a threat, an imagined threat, sometimes an imagined threat, but a historical threat from the north that was Russian Empire, then Soviet Union, and today Russian Federation.
That's why Ankara and the Western capitals had mutual interests.
They needed to cooperate.
Of course, this is from their point of view.
We're looking at the history retrospectively.
And Ankara sought to be part of this Western Atlantic security order just after the Second World War.
Again, NATO also needed Turkey and also Greece to strengthen their southeastern flank against Soviet incursion in Middle East and Mediterranean.
That's why this cooperation started very well and also baptized with blood during the Korean War.
Turkey sacrificed, according to NATO,
official narrative, many of his sons in Korea, they fought for peace and free world.
And then, of course, the governments in Turkey successfully sought American aid, military aid, financial aid.
We are talking about a period where Europe needed to be reconstructed after the destruction of that horrible war, and Turkey wanted to be a beneficiary.
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