Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turks, and, therefore, is not within their jurisdiction. At the moment that city, with its outlying oil district, is situated in the extreme north of the Kingdom of Hedjaz, and under a mandate held by Great Britain from the League of Nations. The question resolves itself to this: Turkey will try to interest America at Lausanne to back her claim to Mosul. It is in effect a political quid pro quo. Turkey will receive Mosul and American interests will work...
...understood that Mr. Richard Washburn Child, American Ambassador in Rome, will be present at Lausanne when the conference is resumed; it has even been stated that he will be there primarily to protect the Chester claims. This, however, lacks confirmation. One thing is certain, Turkey is trying to force a wedge, in the shape of America, between herself and the Allies. It is equally evident that oil will come more to the front in the next, and according to the Turks the final, session of the peace conference at Lausanne...
Ismet Pasha, Turkish Foreign Minister, will, it is announced, head the Turkish Delegation. It was Ismet who guided the destiny of Turkey at the last meeting of the conference, and it was largely due to his influence with the Angora Assembly that the Turkish Delegates have such a firm basis for the resumption of deliberations...
Concerning the resumption of the Lausanne Conference, he remarked that Italy was at one with the other Allies in the desire to make a final settlement with Turkey...
Died. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey under Sultans Abdul Hamid and Mohamet V, in Vienna. In command of a division during the Balkan War in 1912, he tried to stop the panic among his men at Kirkkilisseh by having them shot down...