TY - JOUR AU - Βισβίζη-Δοντά, Δόμνα PY - 1990/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Ανατροπή ισορροπιών στα στενά: Η μυστική συμφωνία της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως του 1915 JF - Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών JA - DeltioKMS VL - 8 IS - 0 SE - Άρθρα DO - 10.12681/deltiokms.235 UR - https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltiokms/article/view/2616 SP - 123-141 AB - <p>No sooner the question of the eastern Aegean Islands remained unsettled at<br />Bucarest in 1913, than the Russians suspected a Greek expansion over the<br />Straits and Constantinople, with the tacit approval of Britain. This expansion<br />seemed more certain, when, at the outbreak of the Great War, the Turks closed<br />the Straits and isolated Russia: The British proposed to use Greek troops and<br />ships for an attack on Gallipoli. This raised the old ghost of a revived Byzantine<br />empire and the Czar made it a sine qua non condition that no Greek forces<br />should participate in an attack on the Straits, or in any settlement concerning<br />that question. He demanded that the Straits and the adjoining territory be<br />included within his empire. Neither the British, nor the French, or the Greeks<br />wished to see the Czar seated on the Bosphorus. But only when the Russians<br />threatened to withdraw from the alliance, did Britain and France agree to<br />Russia’s claims on condition «that the war was carried to a victorious conclusion<br />». The abortive secret treaty of Constantinople of 1915 was formally concluded<br />at the monent when Venizelos, the initiator of the Greek participation<br />in the Straits question, had resigned.<br />Nevertheless, the presence of the Russians in the area was never before that<br />important and played such a principal role as in 1915. But also the presence of<br />the Greeks in that same area neither had nor did become ever again of such a<br />consequence in the history of contemporary Europe.</p> ER -