The simmering tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies supposedly, over territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean have once again thrust the Atlantic alliance’s ...

Truman used Greece as a shining example of his policy of geographically limited war. It might be useful to consider the new Truman principle as applied to Greece—if that civil war had turned out ...

Just hours before Greece released its official map of its Maritime Spatial Plan (MSP), a Turkish newspaper had published an article that Turkey was nearing completion of its MSP initiative, aimed at ...

On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered an address to a joint session of Congress. Truman used the address to ask Congress to deliver emergency aid to the Greek and Turkish governments ...

And if Greece went, the United States feared that Turkey could be next, giving Moscow control of the Eastern Mediterranean including, potentially, the Suez Canal, a vital global trade route.

In March 1947, he announced a new doctrine to contain communist expansion southward across Europe by giving $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey.

The Truman Doctrine further developed on July 4, 1948, when the US President pledged to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey.

This testimony was considered an important factor in formulating what became known as the Truman Doctrine, which stated that the US would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to ...

Following Truman's speech, Congress approves $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. Many historians will consider this the start of the Cold War.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (1947) Truman Doctrine Recommendation for Assistance to Greece and Turkey. 80th Congress, House of Representatives.