Legacy Of “Friendly Neutrality” Goals Of Soviet Policy
... the Zaporozhye Army, which then led to a series of RussianTurkey wars. As is commonly known, throughout the period from 1676 until 1918, there were eleven such wars. The events from those centuries have been thoroughly researched [Zhukov, 2009; 2012; Russia and the Black Sea Straits…1999; Kurat, 2011; Finkel, 2005] in the annals of Russia-Turkey relations. Much to our regret, however, developments from the not-so-distant 20 th century, when relations between the Turkish Republic and the Soviet Union followed another ...