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CTAD-CUMHURIYET TARIHI ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI, vol.20, no.40, pp.359-392, 2024 (ESCI)
Entering 1945, Turkey's main concern was the Soviet threat. Because all of Central Europe and the Balkans had now fallen under Soviet military occupation. Before the Yalta Conference, Turkey tried to prevent possible demands from the Soviets who had invaded the Balkans. In fact, before the Yalta Conference, the conflicts of interest among the Allies had become more apparent, and it had become clear that there were many differences among them, especially in the future of Europe. Sarper's diplomatic negotiations in such a critical period and his correspondence with Ankara will make a significant contribution to the understanding of this period and Turkish foreign policy conducted in this period and to the clarification of Turkish- Soviet relations, which were experiencing their darkest period. The military and psychological superiority of the Soviet Union in the last period of the war resulted in Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as a result of the US need for this country in the Far East war that had not yet ended. In this process in which the Cold War era policies were formed, the Soviet Union tried to implement a similar policy on Turkey since the beginning of 1945 and tried to reach a result by abrogating the 1925 treaty and keeping on the agenda the demands of a new treaty proposals such as land, bases in the straits and the modification of the straits regime, which they have frequently brought to the agenda since 1939, which do not coincide with Turkey's sovereignty rights and are not considered possible to be accepted.