Abstract:

Having invaded the Northern bank of the Black Sea, the Tsarist Russia wanted to occupy the Turkish Straits on both sides in order to guarantee her access to the warm waters as an alternative for the iced northern ports in winter. Tsar’s desire in question could not be realized both because of the conflict among big powers over this region and the Bolshevik Revolution period after the WWI. After the Revolution, Soviets, the successor state of Tsarist Russia, had good relations with Turkey, the Ottoman’s successors, during the two civil wars. But at the beginning of WWII, the Soviets’ policy changed. Like the Tsarist Russia, the Soviet leader Stalin together with Molotov started to ask sovereignty over Turkish Straits. Hence, in Yalta and Posdtam Conferences during the last year of the war, they put their demand for land from Turkey on the table. The United Kingdom and the Unites States of America, however, did not accept their demands. Thus, power politics was exercised to solve the problem

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