Turkey Family Research Paper

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Mert Zhang Bozbey
Aspen Anderson
HIST-1700
4/7/16

On this paper I’ll start with my grandparents’ life which I consider the start of my personal history. I’ll point on how my own family and our life in Turkey has been affected by the events in the United States history and Turkey’s relationship with United States.
Turkey's relationship with the United States began right before the cold war. In 1947, United States Congress started to give Turkey economic and military assistance. Because of the threats from the Soviet Union, United States wanted Turkey to become an ally and interested in keeping a good relationship. In 1950 with the help of United States, and the Soviet Union threats, Turkey moved to democracy system, and Adnan Menderes
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When Menderes was selected, farming animals and agriculture was very improved. Our family was also farming animals and working in agriculture industry so the election helped us. Our family was living in the east part of Turkey and after the selections our family moved to west part of Turkey, İstanbul. After they moved, they started trading for a living. They moved to a city called Şişli. After that, farming kind of ceased and industry was improved.
During Korean War, Turkey contributed to the UN (United Nations forces), and joined NATO in 1952. During the Cold War, Turkey helped NATO’s on the southeastern part of asia against Warsaw Pact countries. Turkey risked a nuclear war during the Cold War because of its position. Between 1950 and 1970, Turkey received military aid from the United States, also hosted an Air Base for United States Air Force. For the United States İncirlik Air Base was very usefulduring the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War. Throughout the history, both countries cooperated to benefit each
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Because of that, he supported the United States' position during the Persian Gulf War. After the war, Turkey continued to give support to the United States., among Turkey's political elite, a consensus had emerged by January 1995. They came up with the idea of which Turkey's security depended on remaining a friend of the United States. For that reason, both the Demirel and Çiller governments undertook efforts to cultivate relations with the administrations of presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. By the time, Gulf war had its own effects on tourism and textile because of the Turkey’s close position to the war and

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