TURKISH STAND
NEUTRAL BUT READY FOR WAR
LONDON, November 1. At the opening of the Turkish Parliament in Ankara today, President Inonu reaffirmed Turkey's policy of positive neutrality and: her decision to maintain that policy. He declared that Turkey believed that each nation had the I right to an independent existence. ! The Turks had been impressed by the fact that that principle was to pre- | vail after the war. The President j went on to say that the dangers lurk- ! ing outside Turkey's frontiers were j continually growing. For that reason, one day, from an unknown direction I and under conditions equally unknown, Turkey might be subject to attack, and it was one of the main tasks of Parliament to prevent such a possibility and to take all necessary measures.
It 4 was Parliament's duty to see that the army was in a state of readiness and he called on the Turkish people to work and unite in their effort as if they were already in the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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168TURKISH STAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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