CLASH BETWEEN TURKISH AND RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS; TURKISH MILITARY PREPARATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100400002-8
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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23 November 1946
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L. 1L compilny of Azerbaijan soldiers recently crossed the Turco-Russian
border in the district a Kars near ItaraGse? and panetrated 12 kilometers
within Torkish territory. An encounter took place between the Soviet troops
and the Turkish frontier guard which resulted in the death of ten Russian
soldiers and one Turkish officer. The coRvaander of the Russian border forces
e7hohlainad that the RussiarAhad crossed the border by mistake and were under
the belief that they ware still on Soviet territory. kpologies were made,
and the bodies of the ten itaerbaijan soldiers were returned.
2. This incident created panic in Kars and grsurum, where it liras believ,
that war had broken out. Telegrams were sent to Istanbul merchents?
ttriging them to hold up all further -shipaents.
Military & Nava PreRavations;
3. It is report.ed that considemble- stoc1ct3 of war itaterials are beimg
tWated from 4.n1ua:ta to the strongly fortiaed "moat In!Arri line which .extends
through the atountain area of Hrzurtuu Daring World Tier I, the Thissians ?
never succeeded ih their att-eopts to break through this free, at that time
anch less heavily fortified than today. who has- just returned to 25X1 X6
Istanbul from this area, stated that in case of war the General Staff is
prepamd to abandon the plains between Kars and Ardalma and to withdraw
to the Erzurum line? which forms the center of the cla01150 across the
Caucasus.* At the time whe?..). the Russians occupied. the Iranian portion- of
Azerbaijan, the Turkisl8fGenoralh Staff was afraid of sh attack *which might
chez from the plaihs/Vsn andltherefore? laid plans for adequate precautions.
It is also reported that medical supplies sufficient to take care of about
200,000 wounded have arrived in the &stern Provinces from' Ankara.
Military hospitals, each with a capacity of 1000 patients, have been
?rooted in various parts of the area, :aid the entire region has been
placed on a war footing. 25X1A2g
25X1A6a comment: disseminated on 5 November 1946, reports
that Turkish troops have evacuated the Kars Ardahan area to positions
'behind the Turco-Russian border a World War I.
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5. fleavy artillery, reported to include 280 milimeter Cletrac
(sic. halftrack?) units, has been installed in the fortifications
at the entrance of the Bosphorus. in the mountain passea beyond Rumen
Hisar and Anadolu Cavak, Additional artillery has been installed
in the wooded. heights of Kirecburnt4
6. According to a competent military man, a third line of submarine
mines has been added to the already existinF to mint, fields at
the entrance of the Bosphorus.
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