Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-20
9nTURKEY FOR TURKS
us THE SLOGAN OF
NATIONS LEADER
kEMAL PASHA TELLS TIE AS
sociATED PRESS HE WILL
10 DRIVE OUT THE GREEKS IF IT
TAKES YEARS.

h Angora, July ~ A reiterated deter.
mination to drive out the Greeks III 1t
takes years is the keynote of CONVEX.
sations which a correspondent OF The
Associated Press has just had with the
Nationalist leader Mustapha Renal at
the latter's villa in the nearby village
of Chankai whien dominates the An
CORA plains Turkey for the TURKS
is the Nationalist slogan.
although the Allies appear to be
unable TO believe it, we will not bar
gain nor accept half measures" kemal
said. 1--WE are prepared TO go on fight
ing for what we deem our rights. II is
not the first time In history that
war has lasted a century, Renal SAID
to the correspondent
ut is just that the vanquished party
shall pay for lost war; he went on
"but il is not just to kill nation. 1t
is unjust to attempt to divide up Tur
kish soil. giving part to the Greeks
and spheres of influence to the French
the Italians and the British. TINS IL
a form of political slavery
"Our conception OF peace for the
mainland has often been stated,
Renal continued. "As for Thrace
eastern Thrace is an inseparable part
OF our homeland, because OF the Tur
kish majority there. For the rest Of
Thrace we are willing TO agree to a
pIebiscite. Constantinople, too, Is
ours. but for the straits and the Ses
of Marmora we are willing TO accept
any solution by which the safety OF
Constantinople can be protected. My
honest opinion is that the old arrange
ment by which the Turks. armed,
guaranteed the neutrality OF the
straits. is the only working solution.
II is patent that an international com
mission will result in quarrels.
"If the Allies desire peace, and SIN
cerely wish to make us pay for the
war" Renal concluded. "let them
cease trying to divide us, for division
means political injustice as well az
commercial folly. | realize war IS
costly affair, and feel its atrocities
daeplv. but II would be greater ant
lasting ruin if we permitted the cut
ting up OF the country into zones or
influence without fighting.
'If we are given a chance. we VIII,
bv our Nationalist movement, regene-
rate Turkey We already observe pro-
hibition strictly, and have also sup
pressed gambling and card playing
I'VE look to the United States TO
continue its friendship and commerce
with us. We believe We are as demo
CRATES as the United States. but nave
no intention to institute a republican
government which we do not need, |
personally have no ambition TO De
come president.
1--WE shall keep to our Caliphate N
Constantinople because the country
needs that from religious standpoint
II is a matter of detail who is made
). sultan. as he has no political respon-
sibilities. The nations power leis in
the National Assembly which is botf
legislative and executive. We are
united: it is not true that there is an
Enverist party trying to overthrow
me. As for Bolshevism, we have
treaty of friendship with them con-
tanning clause which provides that
no propaganda must be undertaken
here. because the Soviet organization
differs from ours fundamentally on ac-
count of our religion