GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 177, 25 July 1908, Page 5

GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY.

CONSTITUTION DECREED. REPRESENTATIVES SUMMONED. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 5.40 a.m.) : CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24. j It is officially announced that the Sultan of Turkey has issued a decree granting a new Constitution, and has summoned a Chamber of Deputies. The finnan granting the Constitution was read at Salonika and was received with great enthusiasm. I J DISTURBED MONASTIR. A GOVERNOR ABDUCTED. MUTINY OF A GARRISON. (Received 5.27 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24. Dinzi Pasha, with a thousand men. entered Monastir and abducted the Chief Marshal, Osman Fein Pasha, the new commander of the villayet of Monastir, without bloodshed. The entire garrison of Ushud has mutinied. Under the present system of Government in Turkey the commands of the Sultan are absolute, unless opposed to the express directions of the Koran, a legal and theological code upon which the laws of the empire are based. The I legislative and executive .authority is exercised through the Grand Vizier and the | Sheik ul Islam, who are appointed by the Sultan, the latter with the nominal concurrence of the Ulema, or general body of lawyers and theologians', over which the Sheik ul Islam, as head of the church, presides. The Grand Vizier, as temporal head, is assisted by a Cabinet of ten Ministers.