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To: Mortimer Snavely

I've studied the history for a project on the life of Ataturk. There are many interpretations but one set of facts, and the fact of it is that turkey was Hitler's number one trading partner in spite of petitions by the Allies. The further fact is that turkey reversed its position when the writing was clearly on the wall in order to get a shot at charter status in the UN. Those are the facts and facts are, by definition, immutable.


254 posted on 06/28/2004 11:24:29 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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Turkey broke off relations with Germany in August of '44 and declared war 23 Feb 45.

Another fact, courtesy of declassified OSS files, is that the OSS and the British identified 1500 Abwehr (German) agents to the Turkish government, who controlled, imprisoned, or otherwise neutralized 800 of them.

255 posted on 06/28/2004 9:36:08 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Comitas, Firmitas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Industria)
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