The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-10
Izzet Pasha Said to Have
Entered Under AS
Sumed Name.
SULTANS CONSUL
DENOUNCES HIM
Saws He Planned Murder Of Thou
sands, and Gained Vast For
tune by Graft.

NEW YORK. Aug. 10-Izzet Pasha,
who was one Of the weaIthiest and most
hated officials in the Ottoman Empire
denounced by Mundji Bey, the Turkish
consul general in New York. as a Grim
iDaI fugitive. is believed 10 have arrived
here on Friday by the Maure-ania under
ar assumed name.
So bitter is the feeling against Izzet
Pasha among the armenians in the
United States that his presence is de-
ClEred TO be an invitation to assassina-
ton. He is said TO be worth from $l0.-
0OOOCO to $1,000 0OO, a great part Of which
Is invested in American securities, and
that he has taken the risk Of seeking
asylum here on The plea that he Is a
..HicaN refugee.
Not a Political Refugee.
IF Izzet Pasha has landed" said the
Turkish consul general yesterday, ''he
has violated the law which prohibits
the entrance OF polygamists. He has
three wives To have landed here he
would have TO declare his marital re-
lations If he told the truth he would
be barred out II he did not tell the
truth he would be guilty Of perjury.
''IZzet Pasha cannot claim that he IS
the victim Of political persecution. He
was the chief OF the secret prosecutions
in the palace of the Sultan, where hun
dreds were condemned 70 death and to
exile. He directed the horrors in Mace
donna. He drove 5000 Mohammedans
from their homes He sold decorations
Of the empire He forced the cOnces-
sf0naires of the surface road Of Damas-
Gus 10 pay him tribute, and he sold the
franchise of the line for $4,000 He Is
what is known in New York as a graft
Grand g CRATER of the most audacous
type. From a salary Of $4,000 year he
has managed to accumulate a fortune OF
millions.
.Izzet was president OF the tribunal
OF commerce OF ConstautinOple In 1893
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 member or the
council Of state, and furnished reports
TO the police attacking any person VINO
he believed was inimiCal to his interests.
The Young Turkish party had begun
TO show strength and the Sultan grant
ed certain concessions. lZzet advised
that these concessions be revoked. As
a reward for his servility he was made
chamberlain and then second private
secretary 10 the Sultan.
Planned MaSsacres.
From that time forward his power
was stupendous. 1t was he who laid the
plans Tor the massacre Of the Armen-
ians in later years. and the orders 10
the police TO begin the butcheTy were
at his instigatiOn.
LAS the inspector OF the department
of Justice in Turkey-in-Asia, he held the
lives Of hundreds of thousands of hu-
man beings in his hand. Cruel, per
SIstent and without spark of pity, no
planned tHe deaths OF individuals and
groups whenever he deemed them nee
essary for his own safety or advance
cot the midnight murders IN the Yiidiz
Kiosk there never Will be any record.
The summOnlnE of the victim TO trial
meant the imposition OF the death SEN
tence and its execution. The prisoner
was not defended by counsel. lie was
taken in d closed carriage 10 the kiosk
and confronted with Izzet, who acted
as a prosecutor and, when he saw 1T,
as eNeCuuOneT
Poisoned coffee was one method of
INJECTING the death penalty. The at
JaChing OF a weight 10 the leg of the
condemned and tossing him into the sea
another. There was no appeal from the
sentence of death. Il was carried out
immediately. No records were kept So
that the number poisoned and drowned
after a farc!cal trial never viii be
known.
ABDUL Hama UCleBdLed THIS eXIraOr-
binary authority to Izzet Pasha because
the Sultan was made 10 believe that he
was in constant danger, and that pro
lection lay only in investing his adviser
with plenary power. lZzet's influence be-
came so great that many Of the ignorant
regarded II as supernatural
with his own hand 1ZZet wrote the
telegram TO Zeki PaSha. commander OF
the Hamidie-the Kurdish battalion-tO
put to the sword all the Armenians IL
Asia Minor
He Is an Arab.
"Izzet Pasha has been classed as a
Cyriau, but that is an error. His father
was Hedow Pasha. of AIOsul. near the
ruins of ancient Nineveh. His grand
father was q slave descended from the
Kurds and fire woIshipers. so that
Izzet is not a Turk or Syrian, but an
Arab OF Kurdish descent
There are 5000 Armenians in New
York and its vicinity and about 10 600
in Boston and its envirOns. II is TO be
expected thas, knowing Izzet as they
do they should cry for vengeance.
q hope that this great government
VIII see 20 IL that IzzeJ Pasha is re-
turned 10 Turkey and placed upon trial.
The pretense that he is a political refu-
gee will not deceive the American auth