The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-03
TURKS THREATEN
TO OPEN HOLY WAR
enver Pasha Gives Warning
and Makes Plea to U. S.
For Help.

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drove Richard Occur de Lion out OF
the country.
THAT impulse for freedom and in
dependence, that sacrificial willing
ness to give everything. even life IT.
self, TO shake Off the foreign yoke
still lives In my people and will con-
tinue to live as IL has endured
through the centuries.
"wnnt Wilson IdesI.-
"Your great Chief OF State solemn
ly proclaimed to the world the noble
ideal or the fundamental principle
Of the right OF self-determination for
all peoples. We Turks ask nothing
more.
I'VE did not go into the World
War with imperiallstic purposes as
our goal. We wanted to shake OF
the hated capitulations forced on us.
We wanted merely TO become masters
In our own house. We want to live
in the country which has been ours
for centuries.
Take that right away from us
right that every nation claims for
itself-and there will be no peace for
Turkey and no peace for the whole
world OF Islam.
p'dNt
be signed by willing tools Of England
and France, or by my friends with
bleeding hearts under compulsion OF
starving women and children. we will
night for our rights. for freedom. and
for hundred years II need be.
British Greed.
For decades England has stretched
out a greedy hand toward the Oar
danelles and Constantinople. 1t knew
that the American sense OF justice
would be outraged by such a ter
ritorial theft. for the relations be-
tween Turkey and America have al
ways been cordial.
american schools have been the
source of the education OF many
statesmen OF the Orient. and the fame
of Roberts College radiates afar.
Americans and the truth-loying ele-
ments in England had to be won
over and the Turks had to he made
appear unworthy to control the Oar
danelles and Constantinople.
THE Armenian msssacres' were
part OF these tactics, just as the re-
ports of German atrocities in Belgium
were made part OF England's propa-
ganda. The world is becoming suspi-
cious of the latter, as il develops that
some OF the alleged German bar
barities were grossly exaggerated
and others wholly invented. One day
tho world also will know the real
truth OF the so-called Armenian
massacres.'
Killings Exaggerated.
az will not even claim that the
Turks wcre wholly blameless, But
one thing has already been made
clear. The victims OF all the Arme-
MAN massacres reported in the news
Paper columns reach total OF sew
eral millions, whereas the total num-
Der of Christians, including both
Orthodox and Syrians. in the six
Armenian vilayets is scarcely a mil
lion and half.
az everything written about the
massacres were true, there would re.
main today not one Armenian Chris
tlan. As il is, there are enough of
them left to create with the Ma
hommcdans an Armenian republic.
The first to recognize the independ-
cnce Of that republic was Turkey. and
that was in 1918, when our victorious
troops stood before Baku.
Thus Turkey, on her part, has
tho right to demand for the direction
and guidance OF the destiny of her
people the same respect and recog-
ntion of seIf-determination, and she
will fight for that to the last. Every
pcace that refuses that can only be
an armistice.
"Constantinoplc, Asia Minor, and
the Dardanelles belong to Turkey and
only to her. She is the shield bearer
and mandatory there Tor the Whole
Moslem world.
Limit the freedom and independ-