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Britain’s relationship with Turkey had, by the summer of 1945, moved through five years of disappointments and disagreements to assume a very different character to that which had existed in June 1940. The prevailing pre-war image of Turkey — as a robust, dynamic, modernising state, the ‘natural leader’ of the Balkan nations, and a ‘bridge’ between the Soviet Union and the western democracies — had been comprehensively dismantled.
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Cf. John C Caims, ‘A Nation of Shopkeepers in Search of a Suitable France, 1919–1940,’ American Historical Research 79 (1974), pp. 710–43.
David R Devereux, The Formula tion of British Defence Policy Toward the Middle East, 1948–56 (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1990).
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Tamkin, N. (2009). Conclusion. In: Britain, Turkey and the Soviet Union, 1940–45. Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244504_11
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