TURKEY DEFIANT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 944, 19 February 1917, Page 7

TURKEY DEFIANT.

WILL STAY IN EUROPE. Router's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, February 17. A telegram from Constantinople states that the new Grand Vizier, Talaat Bey, in the Chamber of Deputies, referred to the Allies' declared policy to thrust the Turks out of Europe as "the ridiculous threats of enemies who had fled from the Dardanelles as a result of defeat by a valiant enemy." He added: "We will not relinquish Constantinople as long as a single Ottoman is left." LIFE AND DEATH TREATY. CLAIMS OF CIVILISATION. Australian and N.Z. Lable Association. (Received February 19, 9.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, February 18. The Grand Vizier, in a si>eech in the Chamber, declared that Turkey had concluded a treaty of life and death with the Central Powers, and would not be indifferent to the claims of modern civilisation.