Evening star., 1922-11-03
NEW REGIME SET UP.
Angora Assembly Declares 1t Has
Sovereign Rights.

sovereign 0A6ASs'
By the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE. November 81
The Angora assembly last night decided
unanimously that it is Invested with
sovereign rights and that the Turkish
nationalist government is the keystone
of the caliphate, and today the news
papers carry these headlines:
Ottoman Empire Collapsed-In Its
Place There Has Arisen New National
Turkish State-Sultanate Abolished
The decision of the assembly was an
nounced by salute Of 101 guns. I'M
mediately the soldiers and civilians be-
gan to celebrate to the blare of military
bands and the bright flares Of torch
bearers.
assembly The first said that by virtue
of organic statute and representation
sovereign rights had been vested in an
inalienable and indivisible manner in
the moral person Of the Angora assembly.
which was the only emanation Of the
nation.
The second resolution declared the
caliphate was vested in the imperial
family of the Ottoman dynasty, but t:4at
the Turkish government remains the
keystone of the caliphate.
To Select Caliph.
Ths selection of the caliph is TO
be made by the grand national as
sembly of Turkey. which will choose
that member of the imperial family.
the resolution provides, who is the
best instructed, the best educated,
the most honest and the wisest.
After these resolutions had been
unanimously accepted, amid ap-
plause Premier Reouf Bey ascended
the tribune and proposed the procla-
nation of a national holiday on the
anniversary OF the reaching OF this
decision.
The decision of the Angora assem-
bly, was made known in the following
terms:
having through corrupt ignorance for
several centuries provoked numerous
ills for the country, has passed into the
domain Of history. Recently the Turk
lsh nation, the real mistress of its des-
TIMES, the founder of the Ottoman en-
pire, revolted against its foreign enc
mics in Anatolia and undertook strug-
gle against the palace Of the sublime
porte, which took sides with it's enemies
and against the nation. and to that end
it constituted the grand national as
sembly of Turkey it's government and
its army threw itself into the struggle
against the enemies from without and
against the palace Of the sublime porte.
To-day the era Of liberation has at
last been entered into. The Turkish ma
ton. in view of the treason in the palace
of the sublime porte, has proclaimed its
own organic statute.
Article / Of this statute stipulates
that the sovereignty Of the sultan is as
sumed by the nation.
by article executive and legisla-
tive powers are conferred upon the
nation.
Article invests the body Of the
nation with sovereign rights such as
the right to declare war and con-
clude peace. (These were formerly
prerogatives of the sultan)
Resolutions Proclaimed.
Since then the Ottoman empire
has collapsed, and in its place the new
national Turkish state is called into
being.
Likewise, since the abolition of the
sultanate the grand national assembly
Of Turkey has taken its place: that IL
to say, the government of Constan-
tinople. its existence being no longer
supported by any national force, has
ceased to exist, and no longer consti-
tutes q vital organism. The true mass
Of the people of the nation have in
stituted an administrative govern.
ment Of the people, defending the
rights OF the true mass Of the people
their welfare"
The statement adds:
'The Constantinople government,
having made common cause with the
enemy, astounds US by speaking of
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