Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today

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Onur İşçi, assistant professor at Ankara's Bilkent University and director of its Centre for Russian Studies, on “Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book counter-intuitively argues that the breakdown in Turkey-Soviet relations in the Second World War and at the start of the Cold War was an anomaly in a 20th century in which Turkey and Russia in fact cooperated widely. We also take the opportunity to address present-day Ankara-Moscow ties and the situation in Syria. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English and Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the archive, a 35% discount on over 100 Turkey/Ottoman history books published by IB Tauris, and an archive of over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history, journalism and politics. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854 Check out the Turkey Recap weekly newsletter: https://twitter.com/Turkeyrecap

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