ALLEGED AGREEMENT
TURKEY AND GERMANY DOCUMENTS QUOTED BY RUSSIAN PAPER (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) MOSCOW, August 11. The Turkish President,' Ismet Inonu, in May, 1941, told von Papen that* should Germany agree not to conclude any agreement against Turkey with any other country, Turkey would be pre- 7 pared not to eViter the conflict against Germany. . , This alleged agreement was quoted by ‘ Pravda ’ : from documents stated to have been taken from the German Foreign Office archives. Von Papen, according to the documents, " had ,a conversation with the Prime Minister, Sarajoglu, on August 27, 1942, in .' which the latter, discussing the Russian problem, is alleged to have said: “As a Turk I passionately want Russia destroyed. Germany can, resolve the problem by killing at least half the Russians residing in Russia.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25868, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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129ALLEGED AGREEMENT Evening Star, Issue 25868, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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