January 27 1954 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Hosts Turkish President

(Click image to enlarge) President and Mme. Bayar seen with Turkish Ambassador Feridun Cemal Erkin [1] in radiophoto published in Cumhuriyet newspaper

Mavi Boncuk |
Turkish President, Celal Bayar (C), being greeted by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower (L) and Vice President, Richard M. Nixon, on Bayar's tour of the US.

January 27 1954 Washington. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower receives Members of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Catholic Women. Morning appointments with G. M. Humphrey (off the record); J. C. Hagerty. Press conference, followed by appointment with Congressman C. J. Kersten (off the record). Receives members of the Jewish Advisory Committee of the Republican National Committee. Luncheon with R. Makins, General J. Whiteley, and Air Chief Marshal W. Elliot. Meetings with a Republican group from Pennsylvania; A. F. Burns. Receives and hosts dinner for Celal and Madame Bayar at the White House.
Source Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission

Turkish President, Celal Bayar, and party en route to White House, as news photographers are following in truck.

[1] Feridun Cemal Erkin (b. 1900, İstanbul, Turkey - d. 21 June 1980) Turkish diplomat and politicion.
18th Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey 1962, 1965, Non-party.
Feridun Cemal Erkin's memoirs was published under the title Disislerinde 34 Yil (34 Years in Foreign Service) which covers ambassadorships in Rome, Washington Dc, paris and London. His most inportant work is on the Staits law as it relates to Turko-Soviet relations. Les Relations Turco-Sovietique et la Question des Detroits (Ankara: 1967). A Turkish version of this book was also published. See also: Güçlü, Yücel.
The Uneasy Relationship: Turkey's Foreign Policy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union at the Outbreak of the Second World War
Mediterranean Quarterly - Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 2002, pp. 58-93
"...Historically, Turkey and the Turkish Straits have occupied a central position in Russian planning for war. The simple reason for this was that Turkey, as custodian of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, could open Russia's only exit to warm waters and, conversely, prevent hostile powers from attacking it in the rear through the Black Sea. Russia has always begrudged Turkey its sovereignty over the straits. Since the late eighteenth century, when the Turks and the Russians fought for control of the straits, the threat of a Russian takeover of this strategic area has always been foremost among the preoccupations of Turkey's diplomats. This was particularly true in the years just before, during, and after the Second World War, when a determination to maintain sovereignty over the straits became one of the guiding factors of Turkey's cautious foreign policy. This essay concerns the uneasy relationship between Turkey and its big northern neighbor created by Moscow's ambitions on the straits at the outbreak of the Second World War. "

Surce for 20 January 1964 photo from Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), B 145 Bild-F017259-0001