Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
TERRIBLE TURK HERE2
Assassination May Await
Turkish Minister'S Father.
is LEGATION DESTINATION?
Izzet Pasha, of Hated Fame, Sup.
posed to Be in New York.
ACCUSED BY CONSUL GENERAL
Declares Refugee Is Not a Desirable
Citizen, Having Three Wives,
and Should Be Deported.

Izzet Pasha's son. Mehmed Ali Bey. the
Turkish minister here, was not at the le-
cation today to deny the report that his
father has arrived in this country.
At the Turkish legation the story of L.
get Pasha's coming to Washington was
received with reservation. Between the
several secretaries and a friend from the
outside it was possible to piece together a
general statement of the situation
The legation has been informed on
just what authority was not disclosed.
that Izzet Pasha left Constantinople a
week ago today. He sailed westward by
the Mediterranean route, which would not
have given him time to get much farther
than the pillars of Hercules, thous ands of
miles from the Bartholdi statue
1t was not known at the legation, so
said the assistant secretary to the secre-
ltary, whether Izzat eventually would
iand IN Washington or not. He might
come here or might go to Norway or some
other invigorating climate for his health.
Asked whether either America or Tur-
key We're particularly unhealthy for him.
the legationers said they really did not
Know. The New York papers had mad a
great fuss over his unpopularity i'm Tur-
Key, but II was not known at the legation
whether he was still holding down gov
ernment job or whether he had been fired
and had to work for a living.
One thing was certain, he was not in
Washington. Unless he had the use of an
aeroplane there is no possibility of his
sighting the shores OF America for at
least week to come.
Believed to Be in New York.
NEW YORK. August 10.-Izzet Pasha.
who was one of the wealthiest and most
hated officials in the Ottoman empire, de-
nounced by Mundji Bey. the Turkish con-
sui general in New York. as a criminal
fugitive. is believed to have arrived here
Friday by the Mauretania under an az
sumed name.
So bitter is the feeling against Izxet
Pasha among the Armenians in the
United States that his presence is de.
clared to be an invitation to assa ssina.
tion. He is said to be worth from SIC. 600, :
is Invested in American securities and
that he has taken the risk of seeking asy-
lum here on the plea that he is a political
refugee.
Il hope tina: this great government will
see to II that Izzet Pasha is returned to
Turkey and placed upon his trial" saws
the Turkish consul general at New York
The pretense' that he is a political refu-
gee Will not deceive the American au-
thorities.
II called the attention of Commissioner
Watchorn to this mans attempt to smug-
gle himself into this country. although he
is a polygamist. and his possible attempt
to claim the protection of the Turkish
legation in Washington.
When the news that Izzet Pasha had ar
rived in America, or was about to arrive
reached the headquarters Of the Armenian
revolutionists the president of the So
ciety said:
Let 500 of us. carrying In our hands
the American and the Ottoman flags.
march to the pier and do our duty"
Nadjib dab. editor of the Syrian Mir
ror of the Week said:
THE sentiment among my compatriots
is deep and bitter against Izzet Pasha. L
know him. I was myself imprisoned and
condemned TO death. / escaped and fed
TO America. and ever since I have been
here l have led the war against the old
regime and plunderers of the stripe OF
IZzet Pasha.'
IF Izzet Pasha has landed. said the
Turkish consul general. 'he has violated
the law which prohibits the entrance of
po!ygamists. He has three wives. To
have landed here he would have TO de-
clare bis marital relations II he told
the truth he would be barred out If
he did not tell the truth he would 30
guilty of perjury.
Not a Political Refugee.
''Izzet Pasha cannot claim that he is
the victim of political persecution. He
instigated the Armenian massacres He
was the chief of the secret prosecutions
in the palace of the sultan. where hun
dreds We're condemned to death and to
exile.
He directed the horrors In Macedonia.
He drove $4,000 Mohammedans from their
homes. He sold decorations of the
empire. He forced the concessionaires
of the surface road of Damascus. to pay
him tribute and he sold the franchise of
the line for S2jOO00.
He is what is known in New York as a
grafter-and a CRATER of the most auda-
ciouS type From a salary of $1,000 a
year he has managed to accumulate
fortune of millions
.'Izzet was president of the tribunal
of commerce of Constantinople in 1898
and 1894, an organization somewhat
similar to your chamber of commerce.
The scandal of his administration be-
came SO great that he was dismissed.
He then became a member of the
council of state. and furnished reports
to the police attacking any person who
he believed was inimical TO his interests.
The Young Turkish party had begun to
show strength and :he sultan granted
certain concessions. Izzet advised that
these concessions be revoked AS a re-
ward for his servility he was made
chamberlain, and then second private Sec
retary TO the sultan.
Says He Planned Massacres.
From that time forward his power
was stupendous. II was he who laid the
plans for the massacre of the Armenians
In later years, and the orders 10 the
police to begin the butchery were at his
nstigation.
LAS the inspector of the department Of
Justice in Turkey-in-Asia, he held the lives
of hundreds of thousands of human be-
ings in his hand. Cruel, persistent and
without a spark of pity he planned the
deaths of individuals and groups when
ever he deemed them necessary for his
own safety or advancement.
'.Of the midnight murders in the Yildiz
Kiosk there never will be any -ecord The
summoning of the victim to trial meant
the imposition of the death sentence and
it's execution. The prisoner as not de-
Tended by counsel. He was taken in a
closed carriage to the kiosk and CONFRONT
ed with Izzet. who acted as prosecutor
and. when he saw fit, as executioner.
Poisoned coffee was one method OF in
fiicting the death penalty. phe attaching
of a weight to the leg of the condemned
and tossing him into the sea WIS another.
There was no appeal from the sentence
Of death. 1t was carried out Immediately.