Word: tewfic
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Turkish Position. Foreign Minister Tewfic Bey sent an official protest to the Council, alleging that England had armed the Chaldeans against the Turks and that no Turkish atrocities had been committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
Developments were ominous but of doubtful significance: 1) Tewfic Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and head of the Turkish League Delegation, left Geneva suddenly by the Orient Express for Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that...
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