The first watch, today's sixth watch

If the 13th Russo-Turkish War really breaks out, Turkey has no chance of winning at all, and the Turkish president's toughness comes from the Americans who support him behind him, but unfortunately the Americans do not seem to want to spend too much money and take risks to provoke the bottom line of the Soviet Union.

"We demand that Turkey open its jurisdiction over the Black Sea straits, at least in terms of strait security and defense, with Moscow and Ankara forming a strait defense community, and that the Soviet Navy set up military bases on both sides of the Bosphorus and have sovereignty over the Dardanelles at the southwestern end."

The attempt to seize sovereignty over the Black Sea straits was attempted by the Soviet Union as early as 1945, when the Soviet Union demanded that Turkey agree to establish a military base in the straits and that Turkey and the Soviet Union jointly organize the defense of the straits. In 1950, the Turkish government announced its rejection of the request of the Soviet Union and Turkey to jointly administer the strait. The importance of the strait has always haunted the Moscow government.

"Stalin also did not take the Black Sea straits for himself in 1945, do you think we will be willing to cede the Bosphorus?" Demirel sneered, "If we had known that the Soviet Union's ambitions were so big, we might as well just give up the whole of Turkey?" Tell you, if you want sovereignty over the Black Sea straits, there are no doors. Unless you turn Turkey into a Socialist Republic of Turkey. Demirel did not expect that the Soviet Union would have such great ambitions to turn the straits at the throat of the European continent into its own territory.

Imagine that once Turkey entrusts the straits to the joint ownership of both sides, then Britain and France can also find an opportunity to intervene in the dispute, and Turkey wants to use NATO's military power to counter the Soviet Union, but he is not a fool. How is it possible to sell the interests of the entire country to the old bandits of the West. Turkey is like a scale. Balance the two forces. Guarantee 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 do the math on another thing. Turkey's Kurdish colony is getting out of control, right? If the maintenance of stability continues like this, it seems that 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 on the border? What are you going to do next, to wage war against Syria? ”

Yanayev's words were scraped in the heart of the Turkish president like a knife, and he was surprised to find that Turkey's every move was watched by the Soviet Union, and it was just Demirel fooling himself.

"Of course, the war in the eastern cities will not stop, and the flames will even grow stronger. When the riots turned into a civil war, the P5 had a reason to interfere in Turkey's internal affairs. It's the end we've never dreamed of. "Yanayev is giving Demirel his own choice. Should jurisdiction be handed over with dignity, or will it be used to use some dishonorable means to directly seize jurisdiction in the Black Sea by means of political intervention?

In the event of war, the Black Sea Fleet would surely reach the shores of Turkey faster than the group of Western war correspondents.

"When the time comes, not to mention that Turkey wants to control the strait, even the sovereignty of your country will be difficult to guarantee."

Yanayev has exhausted all the intrigues for the strategic location of the strait, from the very beginning of the fighter crash to provide a pretext for the Soviet Union to intervene in Turkey, and then there are interlocking conspiracies, constantly stacking straw on Turkey's shoulders until the last straw that crushes the other side is placed.

Yanayev calmly looked at the middle-aged man on the other side of the sofa, lost and pale. If it weren't for the last shred of dignity supporting this person, he would probably collapse directly on the sofa. The Turks, who dreamed of restoring the glory of the empire, now understood. Everything I did was simply to find an excellent excuse for the other party to intervene.

"If I think that the breakdown of the negotiations has nothing to do with it, I think the dialogue between the two countries will end there. It is possible that from next month, the Kurds will gradually have more advanced weapons, such as armored vehicles and tanks. Hopefully, the Turkish government won't mind spending a little more on stability maintenance. ”

Yanayev stood up and exhaled a long breath, although this negotiation did not take much time, but in the eyes of the other side, it could be a century long. He patted the Turkish president on the shoulder and walked towards the door, Yanayev's steps were a little slow, and his leather shoes gently stepped on the red carpet, covering the cumbersome patterns on them.

He is also waiting, waiting for the Turkish president to make a decision. Yanayev's move to get up and leave was nothing more than a show, and he was not willing to be defeated in the end. Just as his right hand was on the doorknob, there was a sudden call from the Turkish president behind him.

"Wait, on the issue of strait management, I would like to discuss it with you again, General Secretary Yanayev."

Yanayev, who had his back to the Turkish president, finally breathed a sigh of relief, he lowered his hand from the doorknob, turned to Demirel and said, "Of course, President Demirel." ”

So Dmirel and Yanayev had an in-depth exchange in a secret conference room on how to jointly manage the straits and the establishment of military bases. The Turkish president finally promised the Soviet Union that a small military base with a number of about two hundred people could be set up on the left bank of the Bosphorus, but only as a supply point for ships. As for the issue of aircraft carriers, Turkey firmly stated that they would not allow the aircraft carrier battle group to pass through the strait.

The flaws that the Soviet Union had failed to find in Turkey with all their efforts were finally cracked by Yanayev, and although there was a certain distance from Yanayev's goal, it was a good start anyway.

But Demirel also had one condition: the Soviet Union stopped aiding the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and abolished the GRU military training camp in Syria.

In this regard, of course, Yanayev was full of promises. In any case, the Soviet Union did not directly aid the Kurdistan Workers' Party, but indirectly provided military assistance to the Kurds through Assad. So Turkey's demands are ineffective to a certain extent.

The second demand was to abandon the canal opening plan with Bulgaria and Greece, which President Demirel expressed particularly fiercely, believing that the opening of the canal would harm the interests of Turkey and the Black Sea countries, so he firmly resisted the plan.

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

It is still a long way from the Soviet Union's dream of turning the Black Sea into a backyard, but it is also a welcome thing that Yanayev has achieved his initial goal without bloodshed. It's just that Saddam Hussein, the Middle Eastern tyrant, was a little unlucky, because he didn't know that he had become the target of the United States again as an exchange hand.

The news of the agreement between Turkey and the Soviet Union made the news the next day, and immediately spread in various countries as an international event, and the reaction of the US government was relatively muted, because it had long been complicit in the Soviet Union.

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

However, the British were most concerned about the project, and they even wanted to persuade Parliament to participate in the project, if the Black Sea could be turned into the open sea, it would greatly expand the sphere of influence of Britain and France, and the right to operate the canal would also bring a lot of income to Britain.

Prime Minister John Major bemoaned the cancellation of the plan, and he was even ready to negotiate with the Bulgarian and Greek governments to see if the project could be restarted and the construction of the Super Canal led by the British. However, Prime Minister Major's actions have been met with unanimous opposition from both inside and outside.

The first was that Bulgaria ignored the British government's advice because of the Umbrella murders, and Greece euphemistically stated that it had no intention of joining the program for the time being. As for the members of the Palace of Westminster who were guarding the money bags, they even criticized what Major said as a stupid decision.

So Major had to dismiss his thoughts, and at the same time cast a jealous look at the Soviets for gaining jurisdiction over the Strait at almost no cost, and cursed the damned Russians through gritted teeth. (To be continued.) )