USSR 1991

Demirel's request to visit the Kremlin is indeed not an honorable thing. The Turkish president who had sworn a while ago turned into a lost dog in a blink of an eye.There was even a story about Henry IV braving the snow and kneeling to Gregory VII to admit his mistakes.People can't help but link the owner of the Kremlin with the powerful pope in the Middle Ages. Ye's side confirms that no neighboring country that offended the Soviet Union will end well.From Poland to Turkey, countries that had disputes with the Soviet Union ended up shivering before the giant claws of red polar bears.

When Demirel arrived in Moscow, it happened that there was a rare heavy snowfall. On the way to the Kremlin, the gray weather and the deep accumulation of snow added to his uneasiness and haze.This Kremlin negotiation is destined to be difficult. At least the Soviet Union has a hundred ways to make things difficult for the Turkish president.

However, to Demirel's surprise, Moscow did not do too much to obstruct, but generously welcomed Demirel's arrival. They arranged the meeting place in St. George's Hall. into the world.

When Yanayev appeared, Demirel was visibly nervous. The expressionless, tall general secretary gave Demirel an invisible sense of oppression, as if the opponent's hands were now controlling Like a huge army, it can smash him to pieces at any time.Yanayev walked up to Demirel, stretched out his hand politely, and said without a trace of emotion, "President Demirel, welcome to Moscow."

The latter sentence of "Welcome to Moscow" was almost full of killing intent. Demirel swallowed his saliva, and all the previous arrogance and arrogance disappeared, leaving only the heartfelt awe of the man in front of him.He stretched out his hand stiffly, and said slowly, "General Secretary Yanayev, hello."

After the two sat down, they talked about the recent fighter jet shooting down incident between the Soviet Union and Turkey. Turkey changed its previous tone and claimed that this incident was purely a misunderstanding. They thought that the fighter jet that invaded their airspace was preparing to fight. So the Turkish fighter jets that happened to be patrolling the border shot it down directly.

The subtext of Demirel is that I have stated that this is a misunderstanding, you should stop on the Kurdish issue, right?

This kind of statement is okay to fool a three-year-old child, but it seems a bit pretentious to say it on such an occasion.Yanayev just sneered in his heart, watching Demirel's every move with cold eyes, misunderstood?You let me lose a fighter, is this a misunderstanding?

Yanayev interrupted Demirel's eloquence, "With all due respect, President Demirel. If a fighter jet is shot down, if misunderstanding can be justified, then there will be no such thing as a national political conflict. So the Soviet Union will not explain the accident by saying that it was a misunderstanding."

"If this is a misunderstanding, the Soviet Union launched a war against Turkey and attacked Istanbul. After the war, can it also be described as a misunderstanding? Can we also describe it as a misunderstanding when we dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on Ankara? "

Hearing what Yanayev said, the Turkish President suddenly broke out in cold sweat. He has seen the madness and reluctance of the Soviets before. Now the suppression of civil strife has already made Demirel exhausted. Let’s come to No.13 Russia-Turkey Didn't the war cause Turkey to lose even the last Black Sea strait?

"That's not what we mean, General Secretary Yanayev. It's just that we think that this incident is purely a misunderstanding between the two parties. Really..." Demirel became incoherent in a hurry.

At this time, Yanayev took out a Turkish daily from behind and threw it in front of Demirel, "Misunderstanding? What is said in the newspaper is also a misunderstanding? Defense Minister Sabahati said that they can solve the problem within a few weeks." Occupy the Soviet Union, is such an arrogant statement still a misunderstanding?"

This time Demirel really wanted to cry, but the black and white newspapers could not erase the evidence.He never expected that Yanayev would confront Demirel so stubbornly on this matter.It seems that the biggest mistake Turkey made was to provoke the red polar bear next to him.

"If you come out to mess around, you will have to pay the price sooner or later. When you offend the Soviet Union, you should think about what will happen today." Yanayev's expression became gloomy. Snow weather is even worse.

"Since the Turkish President thought so arrogantly that you could occupy Moscow, the Kurdish turmoil is also a price you paid. The Turkish President does not really want to see Kurdistan establish a new regime in the Middle East. Bar?"

"Of course I don't want to. I also ask General Secretary Yanayev to hold his hand high and stop aid to the Kurds." Seeing that the other party finally got to the point, Demirel hurriedly tried to solve this problem.

"Of course we have no problem with the Kurdish side, but you should go to Syrian President Assad to negotiate instead of wrangling with us, shouldn't you? It's not the PKK that we aid." Yanayev deliberately said in Demirel Pretending not to know anything in front of him, he kicked the ball to Assad.

Just when Demirel was at a loss, Yanayev gave him a shot in the arm, "Of course, if we can reach a common agreement on the issue of the Black Sea Straits, maybe we can reach an agreement on the issue of the Kurds." Find a common topic." After finishing speaking, Yanayev smiled at him friendly, as if this was just an innocuous topic.

Hearing Yanayev's reply, Demirel widened his eyes, looking at Yanayev in front of him, as if looking at a terrible devil.

After beating around the bush for so long, the Black Sea Strait is where the fundamental interests of the Soviet Union lie. At this time, Demirel has almost no bargaining chips in his hands to reject the Soviet Union.He pouted his lips and was about to speak when Yanayev interrupted him first.

Yanayev continued to provocatively said, "If you can't negotiate on the issue of the Black Sea Strait, then I don't think it is worthwhile to continue discussing all the issues. If your country is not convinced, you can go directly to No .13 wars, anyway, the Soviet Union can afford it."

After finishing speaking, he added very arrogantly, "As for whether you can lose or not, I don't know."

Chapter 285 Ownership of the Strait

If the No.13 Russo-Turkish war is really going to break out, Turkey has no chance of winning at all. The Turkish president’s toughness comes from the Americans who support him behind him, but unfortunately, the Americans don’t seem to want to spend too much money and take risks. Risk to provoke the bottom line of the Soviet Union.

"We ask Turkey to open its jurisdiction over the Black Sea Strait. At least in terms of strait security and defense, Moscow and Ankara will form a strait defense community. sovereignty."

The Soviet Union tried to seize the sovereignty of the Black Sea Strait as early as 1945. The Soviet Union asked Turkey to agree to establish a military base in the strait and Turkey and the Soviet Union jointly organized the defense of the strait. In 1950, the Turkish government announced that it rejected the request of the Soviet Union and Turkey to jointly manage the Strait.The importance of the strait has long haunted the Moscow government.

"In 1945, Stalin did not take the Black Sea Strait as his own. Do you think we would be willing to cede the Bosporus Strait?" Demirel sneered, "If we knew the Soviet Union's ambitions were so big, we might as well Can you just hand over the whole of Turkey? Tell you, if you want the sovereignty of the Black Sea Straits, there is no door. Unless you turn Turkey into a Turkish Socialist Republic." Demirel did not expect that the Soviet Union's ambitions would be so great, and the European continent's throat The strait wants to become its own territory.

Just imagine that once Turkey entrusts the strait to the joint ownership of both parties, then Britain and France can also find opportunities to intervene in the dispute. Turkey wants to use NATO's military power to counter the Soviet Union, but he is not a fool. How could he betray the interests of the entire country to the West? A group of veteran robbers.Türkiye is like a balance, balancing the two forces.Ensure that you can get enough benefits in the confrontation between the two sides.

"It seems that there are huge differences in the negotiations." Yanayev said with a smile, "Let's not talk about this deal, let's calculate another matter. The Kurdish gathering place in Turkey is about to get out of control, right? Maintain stability If this continues, it looks like it will turn into a civil war! Didn’t the fighter jets you sent to Syria to bomb the Kurdish training camps be shot down by Sam missiles at the border? What are you going to do next, start a war in Syria?”

Yanayev's every word was like a knife on the Turkish President's heart. He was surprised to find that the Soviet Union saw every move of Turkey, but Demirel was foolishly deceiving himself.

"Of course, the wars in the eastern cities will not stop, and the burning flames will even become more and more vigorous. After the riots turned into civil wars, the five permanent members of the United Nations have a reason to interfere in Turkey's internal affairs. This is the ending we all want to see in our dreams Yanayev is giving Demirel his own choice, handing over the jurisdiction decently, or using some disgraceful means to directly snatch the jurisdiction of the Black Sea through political intervention?

Once a war breaks out, the Black Sea Fleet will definitely reach the Turkish coast faster than the group of Western war reporters.

"At that time, don't say that Turkey wants to control the strait, even your country's sovereignty will be difficult to guarantee."

It can be said that Yanayev’s conspiracy for the strategic location of the strait has been exhausted. From the very beginning, the fighter jet crash incident provided an excuse for the Soviet Union to intervene in Turkey, and then there were interlocking conspiracies. Straws were piled on Turkey's shoulders until the last straw that crushed the other side was placed.

Yanayev calmly looked at the middle-aged man on the other side of the sofa, lost his mind, his face was pale. If it wasn't for the last bit of dignity supporting this man, he might have collapsed on the sofa directly.The group of Turkic people who dreamed of restoring the glory of the empire realized now that everything they did was to find an excellent excuse for the other party to intervene.

"If you think that the breakdown of the negotiations has nothing to do with it, I think the dialogue between the two countries will come to an end. Perhaps starting next month, the Kurds will have more advanced weapons one after another, such as armored vehicles and tanks. I hope the Turkish government will not I would mind spending a little more on stability maintenance.”

Yanayev stood up and took a long breath. Although the negotiation did not take much time, in the eyes of the other party, it might take as long as a century.He patted the Turkish President on the shoulder and walked towards the door. Yanayev walked slowly, and his leather shoes lightly stepped on the red carpet, covering the cumbersome patterns on it.

He is also waiting, waiting for the Turkish president to make a decision.Yanayev's action of getting up and leaving was just a show, and he was not reconciled to failing in the end.Just as his right hand was resting on the doorknob, the Turkish president suddenly called to stop behind him.

"Wait, I want to discuss with you again about the management of the strait, General Secretary Yanayev."

Yanayev, with his back turned to the Turkish President, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He put his hand off the doorknob, turned around and said to Demirel, "Of course, President Demirel."

So then Demirel and Yanayev conducted in-depth exchanges in the secret meeting room on how to jointly manage the strait and the establishment of military bases.The Turkish President finally agreed that the Soviet Union could set up a small military base with a population of about 200 on the left bank of the Bosphorus, but it could only be used as a supply point for ships.As for the issue of aircraft carriers, Turkey firmly stated that they would not allow aircraft carrier battle groups to pass through the strait.

The flaws that the Soviet Union had tried their best to find from Turkey before were finally cracked by Yanayev. Although there is a certain distance from Yanayev's goal, it is a good start anyway.

However, Demirel also has one condition, that is, the Soviet Union stops aiding the PKK and cancels the GRU military training camp in Syria.

In this regard, Yanayev, of course, fully agreed.Anyway, the Soviet Union did not directly aid the PKK, but indirectly provided military aid to the Kurds through Assad.So Türkiye's request is somewhat invalid.

The second requirement is to abandon the plan to open the canal with Bulgaria and Greece. This is something that President Demirel has expressed particularly fiercely. He believes that the opening of the canal will damage the interests of Turkey and the Black Sea countries, so he resolutely resists this plan.

Of course, Yanayev happily agreed to this request. The original plan was just a propaganda strategy, but Turkey itself was too nervous and thought that the Soviet Union was going to use the canal to weaken Turkey's bargaining chip.

It is still far away from the Soviet Union's dream of turning the Black Sea into a back garden, but it is also a gratifying thing for Yanayev to achieve the initial goal without bloodshed.It's just that Saddam, the hero of the Middle East, was a little unlucky, because he didn't know that he had become the target of the United States again as an exchanged hand.

The news that Turkey and the Soviet Union had reached an agreement made it to the news the next day, and then spread in various countries as the headlines of international events. passed.

When the Soviet Union announced that it would not start the canal construction plan for the time being, as vested interests, Bulgaria and Greece both smiled knowingly at the same time.

But the British are most concerned. They were very optimistic about this project and even wanted to persuade the parliament to participate in this project. If the Black Sea can be turned into a high sea, the sphere of influence of Britain and France will be greatly expanded, and The right to operate the canal can also bring a lot of money to the UK.

Prime Minister John Major lamented the cancellation of the plan. He even prepared to negotiate with the governments of Bulgaria and Greece to see if the project could be restarted and Britain would take the lead in building the super canal.However, what Prime Minister Major did was met with unanimous opposition from inside and outside.

First of all, Bulgaria ignored the proposal of the British government because of the Umbrella Murder, while Greece euphemistically stated that it had no intention of joining the plan for the time being.As for the MPs in the Palace of Westminster who guarded the money bag, they criticized them even more, thinking that what Major said was an extremely stupid decision.

So Major had no choice but to dispel his thoughts resentfully. At the same time, he cast a jealous look at the Soviet Union's acquisition of jurisdiction over the Strait at almost no cost, and cursed the damn Russian through gritted teeth.

Chapter 286 "What do we owe you?" "

Western countries always think that they have a dominant position in propaganda and can start instilling the threat from the socialist countries of the East to people all over the world.Britain will always find a way to get back the face it lost in front of people all over the world.For example, The Times specially drew a cartoon to satirize the expansion of the Soviet Union.

With a sickle and hammer in his left hand and a vodka in his right hand, a giant bear is lying on the Black Sea Strait. Its huge body blocks the shipping in the strait, and it looks fiercely into the distance.In front of the black bear, the ships flying the British flag looked extremely small.The Times used such news to mock the Soviet Union's strategic expansion, and used a very Cold War headline, "Be careful everyone, the terrible evil empire is back."

"Yes, that evil empire is back, after three years of absence from European politics, when the brutal 'Ivan the Terrible' sounded the horn of war again, when Peter the Great turned his blade on England The security of the homeland once again declares his existence to the West. When the crazy Ivan puts his hand on the nuclear button, the people of the free world will once again feel the terror from the red world, but our government has already Lost the glory that the sun never set, and looked weak and incompetent in front of the powerful Soviet!"

Ivan the Terrible refers to Yanayev's tough political and diplomatic methods, while Peter the Great refers to Yanayev's political reforms, a very clever metaphor.

All of a sudden, under the operation of certain conservative politicians, the Soviet threat theory began to heat up rapidly in Great Britain. Their people laughably regarded the Soviet Union's control of the strait thousands of nautical miles away as a threat to Britain. It is a threat, but it has never been considered. Could it be that Britain's meddling in the Turkish Straits is not an invasion of great power chauvinism.