Turks Strongly Opposed to Iraqi Rebels
(British Official Wireless) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, May 21 Turkish opinion strongly supports the British action in Iraq, according to responsible quarters in Ankara. The newspaper Yenisabah, for instance, deplores the fact that Iraq has fallen a victim to German intrigues. “The Iraqis,” it says, “should recollect that they owe their independence to the British who if they had wished could have remained in occupation and governed the country as a colony.” The newspaper Cumhuriyet recalls that Britain had voluntarily surrendered its mandate over to Iraq and sponsored the latter’s admission to the League of Nations as an independent •State. “Consequently it was impossible to suspect the British of designs on Iraqi independence.” Other newspapers emphasise that these events occurring in her southern zone of security interest Turkey as much as the Balkans question.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 7
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