TALKS WITH TURKEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 5

TALKS WITH TURKEY

ASSISTANCE FOR ALLIES DISCUSSED Recd. 9 p.m. London, Nov. 16. Although reserve is being maintained at Ankara cn the talks between M. ivienemencioglu and Mr. Anthony Eden at Cairo, it is generally admitted that an exchange di views occurred on the burning question of shortening the war, says tne Ankara correspondent of ’rhe Times. The only thing that can be said is that Turkish opinion has undergone a slow, subtle change in the k-st. six montns. Whereas lormeriy Turkish neutrality was regarded as an indisputable maximum, the people now seem accustomed to the idea that the country may be called on. sooner or later, to show in a more active form their loyalty io the Anglo-Turkish alliance. The question under consideration appears to be whether this more active Turkish assistance will come sooner, as the Allies, wish, or later, in accordance with Turkish views. The rarkish Government is scrutinising the situation from the viewpoint ui the country’s political and military position in relation to the respective Allied and Axis forces arrayed in south-eastern# Europe. Due notice has been taken of Mr. Churchill’s statement that decisive battles would probaoly be fought curing 1944.