AN ALLY IN TURKEY.
SHEIKH-UL-ISLAM'S CALL. NATIONALISTS DENOUNCED. . CIVIL WAR EXPECTED. . By Telegraph— Association Copyright. (Received 10.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 12. The new Sheik-ul-Islam, the chief religious authority in Turkey, has issued a fatwa indicating that the Nationalists are raising rebel levies .and oppressing robbing and murdering the Sultan's subjects, thereby causing the cutting off of Constantinople from the Ottoman Empire. The fatwa calls upon all Moslems to rally to the Sultan's standard and places the Nationalists under the interdict of the faith. Another fatwa banning Bolshevism is expected in a few days. Damad Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier, has issued a communique bluntly asserting that the people's worst enemies are those who, under the mask of nationalism, sacrifice the country to personal ambitions. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that these pronouncements, while causing civil war in Turkey, give to the Entente a new ally.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17444, 14 April 1920, Page 7
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