Place

Turkey

Country bridging southeastern Europe and western Asia.

5 links, 5 backed by primary records

In Turkey

Turkey borders the Black Sea, across from the Soviet Union’s southern coast. US PGM-19 Jupiter missiles were stationed there until April 1963.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk According to Grigori Sokolnikov Primary record 4
Said for the Soviet delegation at the final session on 3 March 1918, before signing. Turkey here is the Ottoman Empire, one of the four Central Powers that signed. Article IV of the treaty had Russian troops leave Ardahan, Kars and Batum.

Proof 5 sources

Cable, Ambassador Dobrynin to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Meeting with Robert Kennedy, Wilson Center Digital Archive, 27 Oct 1962. Primary record
Formally the deployment of missile bases in Turkey was done by a special decision of the NATO Council.
The Jupiter Missiles and the Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Sealing the Deal with Italy and Turkey, Wilson Center, 20 Apr 2023. Scholarship & press
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
U.S. Jupiter missiles were removed from Turkey in April 1963.
Statement by Sokolnikov at the final plenary session of the Brest-Litovsk conference, Marxists Internet Archive (Documents on Soviet Foreign Policy), 3 Mar 1918. Primary record
ignoring the real wishes of the population of the districts of Ardahan, Kars, and Batum, Germany detaches these areas for the benefit of Turkey, whose armies had never conquered them.
Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, Moscow, October 27, 1962 (FRUS 1961–1963, vol. VI, doc. 66), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 27 Oct 1962. Primary record
Your missiles are located in Turkey.

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