title: Finnish-Turkish Relations as Reported by Envoy Yrjö-Koskinen
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metadata.value: Rupasov, Alexander I.
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metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:37:49Z
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metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:37:49Z
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metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Rupasov A. I. Finnish-Turkish Relations as Reported by Envoy Yrjö-Koskinen. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 468–480. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.210 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41705
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metadata.value: This article focuses on Finland’s relations with Turkey in 1940–1944. Although Turkey recognized
  Finland’s independence as early as 1918 and established diplomatic relations with Finland
  in 1926, Finland did not have a diplomatic mission in Ankara until 1940. The protracted
  nature of the relations was mainly determined by the lack of a basis (political or economic)
  for Finland’s interest in Turkey. A sharply changed situation following the Soviet-Finnish war
  (1939–1940) and the war in Europe inevitably required additional information for evaluation
  of the processes taking place. Neutral Turkey could provide such an opportunity even by virtue
  of the fact that the Finnish diplomatic representative was able to contact with diplomats of
  both Axis and Western powers (with the British Embassy before relations with Finland were
  severed by England in 1943). The content of the reports of the Finnish envoy A. A. Yrjö-Koskinen
  enable to imagine the extremely difficult situation of Turkey, which was under constant
  political pressure from the opposing sides. From the point of view of the Turkish state and
  military leadership, the victory of either side in the World War posed a risk to Turkey. In reality,
  Yrjö-Koskinen’s role as the head of Finland’s diplomatic mission was reduced to collecting
  somewhat chaotic information about world events, not always accompanied by his own
  analyses or comments. At the same time, the envoy’s reports to the Finnish Foreign Ministry
  showed the lack of any evident Turkish interest in the development of relations with Finland.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Turkey
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Germany
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international relations
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Finnish-Turkish Relations as Reported by Envoy Yrjö-Koskinen
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metadata.value: Article
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