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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Turkey Necmeddin Sadak, Ambassador of Turkey Feridun Erkin, Edwin Wilson, and J. C. Satterthwaite
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or E
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Dept. of State letter, Aug.9,1973
Memorandum of Conversation
By N.H.HC : NARS Date 4-21-76
DATE: April 12, 1949
SUBJECT:
Turkish-American Relations
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Conf a
PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary - Mr. Acheson
The Turkish Foreign Minister - Necmeddin Sadak
Feridun Erkin, Turkish Ambassador
Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson, s/P
COPIES TO:
J. C. Satterthwaite, Director, NEA
and RECORDS
EUR, UNA, GTI, Ankara, London, Athens
1-1493_
After an exchange of amenities during the course of
which Mr. Sadak said that he had been instructed by
President Ismet Inonu to transmit to the President and me
the latter's warmest greetings, the Minister said that
with my permission he would review the position in wh ich
Turkey found itself as a result of the recent signature
of the North Atlantic Treaty In March 1947 the United
States Government had announced its program in support of
the independence and security of Turkey Subsequent to
that time, this support was confirmed through the very ef-
fective military assistance which Turkey has received from
the U.S.
Later the formation of the Western Union took place,
and then came reports that negotiations would begin look-
ing to a security arrangement with the United States for
the North Atlantic area. In the autumn of 1948 conversa-
tions took place at Ankara with the U.S. and U.K. Ambassa-
dors in which the Turkish Government raised the question
of Turkey's position in the contemplated security arrange-
ment. The Turkish Government was informed in reply by
written memoranda received from the U.S. and U.K.
Ambassadors, that while details of the proposed arrangement
had not yet been formulated, the conception was clearly a
geographical one, restricted geographically in scope to
countries
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