Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
...They showed no hesitation in replying to our questions and we never found any contradiction among the statements made by persons from the same village. . . . The Turks rounded up and deported these people on the pretext that war was about to break out between Irak and Turkey...
...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...
When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...
...present Mosul frontier to be moved in such a way as to give Turkey a very small increase of territory...