Turkish-American relations have more than 200 years
of history, but the agreements cemented after WWII
brought unprecedented mutual political, economic, and
cultural exchange to the two nations. Traditional
scholarship has located the impetus for this
development in the geopolitical strategies of
the Soviet Union, to which the United States was
forced to react. This study re-examines one aspect
of this traditional interpretation, concluding that,
according to the information published by Ulus
newspaper (the contemporary Turkish governments
semi-official mouthpiece) before and during WWII,...