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The Role Of The Tobacco Trade In Turkish-American Relations, 1923-29., Robert Carey Goodman
The Role Of The Tobacco Trade In Turkish-American Relations, 1923-29., Robert Carey Goodman
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This study of the tobacco trade between Turkey and the United States provides new perspectives on two major themes in Turkish-American relations between 1923 and 1929: the effect of Turkish nationalism on American interests in Ataturk's Turkey, and the effort to restore Turkish- American diplomatic ties broken during World War I. The marked rise in American cigarette consumption after World War I made the tobacco trade a crucial link between Turkey and America because it required the importation of aromatic tobacco. During the Turkish Republic' s first decades, the value of American tobacco imports from Turkey exceeded the value of …