From Enemies to Allies

1. Introduction: Turkey and Britain, 1918–1960 Section 1: The Interwar Period 2. Resurrecting legal extraterritoriality in occupied Istanbul, 1918–1923 3. Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement 4. Making borders from below: the emergence of the Turkish–Iraqi Frontier, 1918–1925 5. Great Britain and ‘a small and poor peasant state’: Turkey, Britain and the 1930 Anglo-Turkish Treaty of Commerce and Navigation 6. Turkish–British relations in the 1930s: from ambivalence to partnership Section 2: The Second World War 7. Turkey and Britain in World War II: Origins and results of the Tripartite Alliance, 1935–40 8. Turkish foreign policy in the chaos of war, 1939–1945 9. ‘A friendly neutral’: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War 10. ‘To accustom Turkish minds to a state of belligerency’: The delicate balance of British propaganda in Turkey during the Second World War Section 3: The early Cold War 11. A tepid alliance: Britain and Turkey in the post-war and early cold war years 12. The transformation of Britain-Turkey-United States relations at the advent of the Cold War (1945–1952) 13. British foreign policy and military strategy: the contradictions of declining imperial power and the Baghdad Pact, 1947–55 14. From indifference to independence: Turkey’s shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s 15. Playing the Turkish card: British policy and Cyprus in the 1950s