The end of World War II., was the beginning of a new era for the world politics, since the world converted to a bipolar system, which called the Cold War. The world especially the Europe divided into two blocs between the victorious states of the II. World War, mainly the United States and the Soviet Union. During the following fifty years, the foreign policies of states mostly aligned to their bloc's policies. In this sense, Turkey had an important role and position for both US and the Soviet Union. Turkey was one of the several countries that stayed out of the war and the German invasion in Europe, so that was not a country that saved by US or Soviet troops. Because of this, in the aftermath of the war, the side of Turkey was uncertain. As a reaction to the Soviet threads over Turkey and the fear of expansionists policies of Soviets, Turkey close to the Western Bloc. The Truman Doctrine (1947) defining the new era and also included Turkey, to the exhausted states of Europe by......

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Title: Turkish Foreign Policy
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