I'm playing a game as the USSR. When Turkey completes their first focus and tries to remilitarize the straits, I chose the option to mobilze the armed forces and Turkey backed down and offered a compromise. It said in the event that I would have free access to pass the strait, yet I am unable to send anything but conoys through. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
My knowledge on this is pretty limited, but I know the American influence on Turkey grew especially after this issue, leading to many leftist movements in the 60's to be increasingly anti-American and criticize the government for submitting to imperialistic powers.
What I'm wondering is, did Turkey have any alternative after the Straits crisis? Would they have been invaded by the USSR had it not been for their NATO membership and US support?
My grandmother (who was a history teacher) told me a story where after signing the Turkish - German friendship treaty, Hitler intended to secure the straits or Thrace before launching Barbarossa, however in the nick of time Δ°nΓΆnΓΌ blew up a bridge and the Germans launched their invasion of the USSR without the straits secured.
However I can only find information saying that a bridge was blown up between that 3 day time period of the signing of the friendship treaty and Barbarossa, and can't find information of an imminent occupation force. If this story is true, did the Germans technically cross the border into Turkey and turn back at the sight of the river?
To the Turkish Foreign Ministry
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is disappointed.
The way the Republic of Turkey handled the straits during the Great Patriotic War does not inspire confidence in the rest of the Black Sea nations. Despite Turkeyβs alleged neutrality, it eagerly allowed Nazi Germany and Facist Italy to go into the Black Sea unmolested. Comrade, is assistance to a fascist state not a sign of fascist tendencies? The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits explicitly forbade nations not bordering the Black Sea to pass through the straits. Thereβs obviously something wrong here.
The regime in Ankara is no longer reliable.
The Montreux Convention must be reevaluated in a new international conference. During this meeting, the desires of Bulgaria, Romania, and the USSR must be heard and met.
- Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov
Joint Diplomatic Resolution to the Straits Crisis.
The Turkish and Soviet governments both agree to the following terms in order to end the present Straits crisis:
Article 1
The upholding of the Montreux convention terms, with the modifications written below
Article 2
Turkey agrees to open the Bosphorus straits to Soviet, Romanian, and Bulgarian warships. Capital ships as well as heavy cruisers will require the relevant nation to inform Turkey 48 hours before their passage.
Article 3
No new foreign military bases or military installations shall be established or constructed anywhere on Turkish territory. The agreement to construct a new base in Incirlik agreed at the Cairo conference, is annulled.
Article 4
The Turkish Army shall be downsized to 500,000 active-duty soldiers.
These articles are to be effective immediately upon signing the treaty and will be effective for 7 years upon signing, after which, a new more permanent treaty shall be negotiated and agreed to.
>!With Soviet focus on Germany and Berlin the United Kingdom has decided to move to firmly ensure the Bosporus Straits are under Western Control. While the Turkish Republic agreed to Soviet demands, they also agreed to a treaty with Britain which established anti-submarine measures across the strait, and an agreement whereby Britain would aid the Turks in the event of Soviet invasion. In light of this we feel the Turks will be more willing to reneg on their agreement with the Soviets (obviously negotiated at gunpoint). Britain will urge the Turkish government to declare the Straits closed to any and all military shipping (including British), while commercial shipping will be subject to checks at the will of the Turkish government. This would effectively make the straights the purview of the Sovereign Turkish government. Britain will back this, and it is likely the United States will too. In such scenario that the Soviets respond unfavorably, Britain will invoke the Anglo-Turkish agreement of Friendship offering to back the Turks in the event of conflict with the Soviets. The British Mediterranean fleet will be utilized to deter any Soviet attempts to challenge Turkish Sovereignty along with the possible deployment of British troops in the event of Soviet invasion, however we deem this an unlikely event.!<
From His Majesty's Foreign Office, Whitehall, London.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin,
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hasan Saka on behalf of the gracious government of the Republic of Turkey.
It is incredibly regrettable that the Turkish government had to cave into the pressure of which the Russians have illegally placed on your nation. Regarding this, it has become extremely clear that the security of Turkey must be maintained at all cost, of which the upholdment of the Bevin-Byrnes Declaration is guaranteed from His Majesty's Government.
Regardless, however, the new Russian terms have actually been implemented, which puts our strategic situation in the Black Sea in dire straits. The dangerous legal precedent set, however, has some silver lining to it. Thus I propose the following course of action in rectifying and even improving our strategic situation compared to before the negotiations with the Russians.
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Inclusion of a modification of the term concerning non-Black Sea nation's rights of passage in the straits, which is permitted bythe legal precedent set by the Russian negotiations. We propose, to keep the face of the reasonable and advanced Atlantic Civilisation, to merely change the term to the allowance for freedom of passage through the straits for any and all parties, with Turkish consent, and the period permitted inside the Black Sea to a predetermined period as notified and accepted by the Turkish Government.
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Preparations to circumvent the Russian terms. While in exact terms, "new foreign military bases or military installations" shall not be constructed, the term does not explicitly deals with foreign militaries using Turkish bases. And as such we propose for a joint commission to analyse and prepare the Turkish airbase at Merzifon for Anglo American basing of nuclear strategic bombers. If this is undesirable, we propose the alternative of British or American bomber squadrons operating with the Turkish Air Force under your flag, and thus in technicality not a foreign force.
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