Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Laidoner began by recalling that the Turks had refused his commission access to the region on the Turkish side of the Mosul frontier. He then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...These Christians are Chaldeans who have lived in this region for centuries as serfs of Kurdish chiefs, who last spring refused to carry out orders from Angora to massacre them. . . . They are a home-loving people, never rebelled, and were the backbone of Kurdish wealth. . . . All idea of voluntary emigration on their part must be excluded. The mere fact that they arrived at Irak and are still arriving daily in the utmost physical distress and completely without resources proves beyond doubt or dispute that they were compelled to abandon their villages by force and violence...
...Literally "Mountain of the Druses:" a wild and inaccessible region some 60 miles southeast of Damascus...
...large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil and military air activities would breed distrust in every region to which our tension." commercial aviation sought extension...
...Mosul Question" is, as everyone knows, the question of what is to be done with some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a matter of Pan-Islamic Nationalist policy; and Great Britain is equally determined that Mosul shall remain sufficiently dominated by Downing Street to keep open the Palestine-TransJordania-Irak route on India...