Why didn't Turkey fight in WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)

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In this episode we'll discuss why Turkey didn't fight in World War 2 and why it sat it out for so long.

Sources:

'Turkish Diplomacy in the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Opportunities and Limits for Middle-Power Activism in the 1930s' by Dilek Barlas

'Great Britain, the Balkans, and Turkey in the Autumn of 1939' by Lynn H. Curtright