Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-04
NEW TURKISH STATE
CALLED INTO BEING

Constantinople, Nov. (by the
Associated Press 1.-THE Angora
assembly last night decided unani-
mously that it is invested with
sovereign rights and that the Tur-
kish nationalist government is the
keystone of the caliphate and to-
day the newspapers carry these
headlines: ottoman Empire Col
lapsed. In its place there has
arisen new national Turkish state
-Sultanate abolished"
The assemblys decision was an
nounced by a salute of lOl guns.
Immediately the soldiers and civil
lans began to celebrate to the blare
of military bands and the bright
flares of torch bearers.
Two resolutions were unant-
mously adopted by the assembly.
The first read that by virtue Of
organic statute and representation,
sovereign rights had been vested in
an inalienable and indivisible man
ner in the Angora assembly, which
was the only emanation of the ma
ton. The second resolution de-
clared that the caliphate was vest
ed in the imperial family of the
Osman dynasty but that the Tur-
kish government remains the key
stone of the caliphate.
The selection of the caliphates
Is to be made by the grand nation
al assembly of Turkey, which will
choose that member of the i'm
perial family who Is the best in
structed, the best educated, the
most honest and the wisest.
After these resolutions had been
unanimously accepted amid ap-
plause, Premier Reouf Bey ascend
ed the tribune and proposed the
proclamation Of a national holi-
day on the anniversary Of reaching
this decision.
The decision of the Angora as
sembly was made known in the
following terms:
THE palace of the sublime porte
having through corrupt Ignorance
for several centuries provoked
numerous ills for the country, has
passed into the domain Of history.
Recently the Turkish nation, the
real mistress of its destinies, the
founder of the Ottoman empire, re-
volted against its foreign enemies
in Anatolia and undertook q strug-
gle against the palace of the SUBJ
lime porte which took sides with
its enemies and against the nation
and to that end it constituted the
grand national assembly of Tur-
key its government and its army
threw itself into the struggle
against the enemies from without
and against the lalace of the sub
lime porte.
To-day the era of liberation has
at last been entered into. The
Turkish nation, in view of the trea-
son In the palace of the sublime
porte has proclaimed its own or
ganic statute.
Article i of this statute stipu-
lates that the sovereignty of the
sultan is assumed by the nation.
"By article IL executive and leg
islative powers are conferred upon
the nation.
Article VII invests the body of
the nation with sovereign rights
such as the right to declare war
and conclude peace. CThese We're
formerly prerogatives of the sui
TAM
"Since then the Ottoman empire
has collapsed and in its place the
new national state is called into
being.
Likewise, since the abolition OF
the sultanate, the grand national
assembly OF Turkey has taken its
place; that is to say, the govern
ment of Constantinople, its exist
ence being no longer supported by
any national force, has ceased to
exist and no longer constitutes o
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 mass of the people
and the peasants, guaranteeing
their welfare"
The statement adds:
"The Constantinople government
having made common cause with
the enemy, astoundS us by speak
ing of the rights of the sultan and
dynastic rights. The dispatch from
Tewfik Pasha, (the grand vizier of
the Constantinople government) is
fantastic feeble document such
as is rarely met with in history"
The assembly then proclaimed
the two resolutions dealing with
the vesting Of the nations sover-
eign rights and the caliphate.