SOVIET DEMANDS ON TURKEY
PRESS GIVING PROMINENCE TO THEM
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Dec. 20. The newspapers in Moscow are today giving prominence to Soviet demands against Turkey, which Mr Bevin, Mr. Byrnes and their delegat ons studied this morning.
The Moscow papers print a letter by two leading Georgian scholars, demanding “the return of territory seized by Turkey.” The letters said the Georgian people had never relinquished this territory, which must be recovered. The area lies immediately south of the oil port of Batum and’the Black Sea end of the Kakau pipeline. The demands are causing comment in diplomatic circles, members of which recall earlier statements from Soviet Armenia concerning Kara and other Armenian areas, now forming
part of Turkey. The Kara area formed part, of Russia until after the firf?t world war, when it was transferred 1o Turkey.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 302, 22 December 1945, Page 5
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