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Timeline Description
Turkey in the Stream
of Time
Illustrating
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Highlights in the History of Modern Turkey
Credits
Atlas of the Middle East 1993.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Related Links
Map of Turkey 2006
Map of Turkey 2010
1914
World War I
Ottoman Empire concludes secret treaty of alliance with Germany.
1918
Sultan sues for peace.
Allied-dictated armistice signed October 30, 1918.
League of Nations assumes administrative custody of former Ottoman
Empire.
1920
Treaty of Sevres (Treaty of Sèvres) of August 10, 1920, reduces
Ottoman
Empire to a small area of Anatolia.
1923
Republic of Turkey proclaimed on October 29, 1923, as successor state to
600-year-old Ottoman Empire.
Mustafa Kemal named President.
Capital moved from Constantinople to Ankara.
1924-1934
Social, political, linguistic, and economic reforms transform Turkey
into
modern Western state.
Various Kurdish insurrections routinely repressed.
1926
Boundary with Iraq settled by League of Nations initiative.
1930
Constantinople officially becomes Istanbul.
1936
Montreaux Convention regulates ship transit through the Turkish
Straits.
1938
Mustafa Kemal, better known as Kemal Ataturk "father of the Turks,"
dies.
1939
Franco-Turkish agreement transfers Syrian province of Alexandretta
to
Turkey, present-day Hatay Province.
1945
Enters
World War II on Allied side shortly before war ends.
1947
Truman Doctrine results in large-scale US military and economic aid.
1952
Turkey joins
NATO.
1954
Military facilities agreement with US allows stationing of American
forces.
1960
Military coup, civilian government reinstated in 1961.
1964
UN forestalls threatened military intervention to protect Turkish
Cypriots on
Cyprus.
1967
War with Greece over Cyprus is narrowly averted.
1971
"Coup by memorandum" replaces government.
1974
Greece engineers coup on Cyprus.
Turkish forces invade and occupy northern part of island.
1980
Military takeover restores public order.
New constitution drawn up by 1982.
1987
Turkey applies for European Community membership.
1988
Lucrative transit trade to Iran and Iraq shifts from wartime to
reconstruction
orientation after Tehran and Baghdad agree on armistice.
1990-1991
Economy hard hit when UN-sponsored sanctions against Iraq curtail
oil and
commodities transit trade.
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