Word: bosporus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the U.S., Britain and Russia had opened conversations with Turkey about the Dardanelles. The Turks would probably have to make one of two concessions: 1) demilitarization of the straits to give Russia unchallenged outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; 2) the creation of a small Dardanelles-Bosporus state to be administered by an international body...
...also on the Turkish frontier. A fortnight ago Pravda had lambasted Turkey for not jumping into the war. Now Russians were harping on an old familiar chord-internationalization of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...
...aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939; 3) a friendship and nonaggression pact signed with Germany in 1941. All were hedges against Turkey's old fear of Russia, which has always wanted Turkey's greatest asset: the Straits (Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus), linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
...Land? A land route to the Balkans could be followed if Turkey came into the war. It would have to be swift, for Axis armies are poised on the far side of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and could block the Allies at these straits if they reached. them first. A land advance could succeed probably only with Turkey's permission...
Turkish Worries. Across the silvery, snakelike Bosporus, Ankara watched anxiously. It was clear that Germany had lost the initiative, but beyond that hazy problems loomed: If widespread revolutions broke out in the Balkans it might be wise for Turkey to establish order in the name of the Allies, risk war against Germany. Allied and Axis diplomats in Ankara last week noted that Ambassador Franz von Papen had gone to Berlin to confer with Adolf Hitler...