Turkey joins NATO
1952 · Event
Turkey becomes a NATO member, anchoring it to the Western bloc and the south-eastern flank of the Cold War.
On these timelines: Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Cold War, Master
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- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520)
- Republic of Turkey proclaimed (1923)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Turkish War of Independence (1919)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1494)
Around 1952
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- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)