Download or read book Britain and Turkey in the Middle East written by Mustafa Bilgin and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting Anglo-Turkish relations in the Middle East during the early Cold War period, Mustafa Bilgin looks at how Turkey at first relied on Britain to protect it from the 'Soviet menace', only later to forge a relationship with the US when the UK blocked Turkey's membership of NATO in 1952.