AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12464, 13 February 1909, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.

A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT. [Pbess Association— Copybight J Received Feb. 12, 10.58 p.m. ;-..■;. Constantinople, Feb. 12. Kiamel Pasha is upholding the programme of a liberal union, based on the maintenance of the Turkish Constitution and the rights of all classes * and races, and has introduced Cabinet changes. He has thus frustrated the attempt to set up a military .dictatorship under Youssouf Iyzebin, the latter representing the Committee of the Union of Progress, whose influence is waning. ' „ . - ■ Nazin Pasha, the new Minister of War, a liberal-minded' Statesman, is reorganising the Adrianople corps. Husni Pasha, the new Minister of Marine, was atached for some time to the British Navy.