[1] The President of Turkey Cevdet Sunay paid a state visit to the United Kingdom in November 1967.

[2] The President of Turkey Kenan Evren paid a state visit to the United Kingdom in July 1988.

[2] Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom paid state visits to Turkey in October 1971 and May 2008.

[8] Perhaps the most historically famous of the slave raids on the British Isles was the sack of Baltimore by corsairs from Ottoman Algiers on 20 June 1631.

[11] The Ottoman Empire, of which Palestine was a part, broke up shortly after the First World War and was officially dissolved in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne.

In the early years of the First World War, there were several important Ottoman victories against the British Empire, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and the Siege of Kut.

The British had, in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, previously been in discussions with the Hashemite family concerning the concept of an independent Arab state.

The handling of the Chanak Crisis (September–October 1922) between the United Kingdom and the Ankara-based Kemalist government caused the collapse of David Lloyd George's Ministry on 19 October 1922[13] and political autonomy of Canada from the UK.

[15] Turkey opposed the Italian attack on Abyssinia in the League of Nations and the totalitarian states of Europe were in the process of switching from revisionist diplomacy to warlike action.

[16] In 1936, Turkey was able to achieve a revision of the post-war order in the Montreux Convention with the agreement of the United Kingdom.

[17] In 1938, Turkey and the United Kingdom concluded a credit and armaments treaty, and after the German destruction of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, France and the United Kingdom abandoned their policy of appeasement and endeavoured to form a far-reaching alliance in southeastern Europe as part of a policy of containment.

"[24] In 2010, the BBC reported then Prime Minister David Cameron's 'anger' at slow pace of Turkish EU negotiations.

[26] The UK, while a member of the EU, and Turkey were linked by a Customs Union agreement, which came in force on 31 December 1995 until Brexit.

"[28] In August 2023, the United Kingdom has signed a deal with Turkey to enhance cooperation in tackling irregular migration.

[37] February 2021, it has been confirmed to members of the press corps, that high level talks have taken place on the possibility of selling Turkey an aircraft carrier of the UK flat top style.