How the rivalry between Russians and Turks shaped the world
On this day in 1853, the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia. The Crimean War wouldn’t end until 1856. #OnThisDay pic.twitter.com/Xbn1wvAmhg — The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 4, 2015 It’s a tense moment for relations between Russia and Turkey. Moscow’s intervention into the conflict in Syria, almost explicitly on behalf of the embattled regime of […] …read more
Source: The Washington Post
