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Разгром турецкой оппозиционной газеты «Тан» в зеркале турецкой и советской прессы
The article analyzes the reaction of the Soviet and Turkish media to the destruction of the“Tan” newspaper on December 4, 1945. The destruction of the “Tan” newspaper, which was in opposition to the Turkish government, significantly aggravated the mutual accusations between the Soviet and Turkish media. The Soviet side made statements about the “fascist” orientation of the protests, the inadmissibility of such an action and the need to condemn these provocations. The Turkish newspapers criticized the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union for “interfering in the domestic political life of the country” and for the “unfounded” nature of the Soviet claims. The exchange of sharp news notes demonstrated the heated relations between the two countries, whose level of interaction before the Second World War was almost of the allied ones. Thus, the steady deterioration in bilateral relations is visible. The apogee of the disagreements between Ankara and Moscow was reached in the second half of the 1940s, when the Republic of Turkey actively launched a propaganda campaign against the “red threat” and moved towards rapprochement with the United States, which resulted in the adoption of the “Truman Doctrine” and Turkey's accession to NATO in 1952.