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Article: Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey.
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey by robin Denniston. Stroud Sutton Publishing; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 208, bibliography, index, illustrations. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback).
The story of Turkey's position and policies during the Second World War has been fairly well known for some time. In spite of the tripartite alliance which President Ismet Inonu's government signed with Britain and France in 1939, it succeeded in keeping Turkey as a de facto neutral throughout the conflict. Inonu and his colleagues had no interest in dragging their country into a war from which they had virtually nothing to gain ...