JOURNALIST IN TURKEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 79, 5 April 1926, Page 7

JOURNALIST IN TURKEY.

"TIMES" MAN'S EXPULSION.

A YOUNG OFFICER'S DEATH.

THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

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(Received 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, April 4.

Mr. Macartney, the correspondent of the "Times" at Constantinople, from which city he was expelled at two hours' notice, telegraphed from Mitylenc saying the Angora authorities are indignant over his dispatches, which recorded the closing of the English High School, an account of the Government's espionage service, and a suppressed telegram to the "Times" on March 20 describing the death of a young officer iv conflict with the police. v

The Government newspaper, "Milliet," acting on official instructions, reported his death by suicide.

The comrades of the victim, after the funeral, raided the oflice of the : 'Milliet," smashing the windows.

Rejed Bey explains that the Government cannot tolerate foreign correspondents making a fuss of an incident which might happen in any country and giving undue prominence to such events with a view to arousing suspicion, suggesting that Turkey's tranquillity is threatened.

Mr, Macartney says: "Tf the incident is trifling, it is strange it was hushed up. Anyway, it hardly warrants my summary expulsion, which happened because my comments were disagreeable to the Turks. There is immense inarticulate discontent smouldering under the military dictatorship."—("Times.")