Soviet–Turkish War

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The Soviet-Turkish War was a conflict during the Russian Civil War between the Turkish intervention army and the Bolshevik forces of Soviet Russia. Beforehand Ottoman Turkey supported the plight of Vladimir Lenin, this was ostensibly to take their historic enemy Imperial Russia out of World War I. Until Lenin succeeded in doing this, the Turkish government pledged that it would not attack Soviet-Russia.

However, when Soviet Russia stayed in the war and continued to fight after Lenin came to power, the Turks began to see the Bolsheviks as a threat, as did the other Central Powers, and reopened hostilities with the Bolsheviks between 1917 and 1918 until they signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Ottoman Turkey discontinued their armed intervention in Russia in 1918 after Bolshevik Russia signed the treaty which ended Russia's involvement in the First World War.

Following the end of war in the west, some Turkish armed forces fought in support of the anti-communist White armies against the communist Red armies during the Russian Civil War. As before, attacking Soviet Russia from the Black Sea and the Caucasus.

References

• Attila and Balázs Weiszhár: Lexicon of Wars (Háborúk lexikona) Atheneaum Budapest, 2004. ISBN 9789639471252
• New Hungarian Lexicon (Új Magyar Lexikon) Akadémia Publisher 1981. ISBN 9630528037

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