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MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT INONU OF TURKEY TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN
"Our countries have common interests, the principal of which is
to defend ourselves against threatened Soviet aggression.
"My responsibility is to face a danger tomorrow when help may be
a century away. We turks really must look that far ahead and must be
able to hold up for a century. Turkey is like an oasis in the desert.
We have no reliable friendly forces on any side - north, east, south
or west. We need assurance now that we would not be abandoned should
Turkey be attacked. We must have a means available to fight immediately.
We hope not only for material assistance but moral support.
"We feel that on every appropriate occasion, the U.S. should
declare that Turkey will not be abandoned, then Turkey will feel itself
doubly strong."
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- HL NARS, Date 10.13.41
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