A LOST TREATY HOW TURKEY ENTERED THE WAR

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3714, 12 October 1926, Page 7

A LOST TREATY

HOW TURKEY ENTERED THE WAR

A Constantinople correspondent of the Central News wrote on August 8:

An interesting fact is revealed in connection with the political trial ol members ol the Committee of Union and Progress, which is now taking place at Angora. No trace of the signed treaty between . Germany and Turkey, which caused tlie latter's entry into the Great War, can now be found. The Tribunal wished to be enlightened on the actual conditions on which the Turkish Government entered the war, but, despite a thorough search at the. former Ottoman Parliament building in Constantinople, where, according to Hassan Fduni Bey, Deputy of Argana, the treaty is said to have been deposited, no trace of it could be found. Nor are any of the actual Turkish signatories of the alliance now alive to enlighten the judicial authorities on the exact terms of the treaty. Investigations by the Director ol Public Prosecutions' show that the treaty was signed in the German Embassy at Tlierapia, on the Bosphorus, nine miles outside Constantinople, the signatories being on the Turkish side Siiid Ilaliin, Talaat, Enver, and Djemal Pashas.

Other members of the Cabinet at that time and the Committee of Union and Progress were totally ignorant that such an alliance had been concluded. In these circumstances there is nobody a,live (o give details of what the treaty contained, a" the signatories have since either been assassinated or have died natural deaths.

The point which now interests public opinion here is whether the Tribunal ol Independence is about to seek out those who were responsible for Turkey's entry into the war. According to inlormation from Angora, however, it is learned that the"Turkish authorities do not intend to institute legal proceedings against the politicians ol that period who collaborated with the signatories of the treaty, but only intend to make certain investigations and subject them to an interrogation.

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