Why did Turkey enter WWII so late? What would have happened if

>>2043402
UK, URSS and Germany pressuring for join in one side, you don't want take the risk of make the Treaty of Sèvres a possibility again

>>2043402
most nations only won when it was clear that one side was losing

Prime Minister İnönü was a WW1 veteran and knew what would happen if he joined the war on any side. There's a rumor that he got up at 4AM and started dancing in his room when he was notified that Germany was invading the USSR.

>>2043402
>Join Axis
Get Sèvresed, which is worse than Trianoned
>Join Allies
The prospect of being allied to Greece, and being expected to help them
Both options were shit for the roaches

>>2043402
It was only a symbolic declaration of war to join the NATO

>>2043402
They didn't really have as much of a stake in it as the Western or Eastern euros, and it's not like war is a picnic or anything, so why would they join unless it was necessary?

>>2044323
Maybe to get some sweet Russian or Balkan land?

>>2043402
Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides would have reached Holocaust levels of annihilation.

>>2043754
Greece and Turkey weren't hostile to each other during that time though. Turkey threatened to invade Bulgaria if they joined the Italians with their invasion of Greece. Not only that but during the Great Famine when Greece was occupied by the Nazis, the Turks send food and supplies to the Greeks.