The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17

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Whose war is this?
C. S. HORTON.
TURKEY TODAY
Turkey, today, is not the sick man
is much smaller in size now, it is more
powerful and better industrially
Equipped than ever before in it's his
tory. During her greatest expansion,
her internal weakness became ap-
parent to all the European powers
and eliminated in the loss of Tripoli
in 1911 and the Balkan states in 1913;
added to this the intrigues of I'm
perialist plotting around her extensive
borders by the British, French, Ger
mans and Tsarist Russia made it ap-
pear she was due for final assault
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Prior to World War I, Turkey had
practically been divided up into
spheres of interests by the western
powers and in her predicament she
tary instructors and, for security's
sake, signing an alliance against Rus
STA, not anticipating World War 1 was
just around the corner. She was poor
ly prepared for war and had no inten-
lions of taking part in it but her Ger
man admiral settled that matter Oct.
2S, 1914, by attacking Russian yes
sells in the Black sea as well as
Russian harbors,
AS badly as she wanted to get out
of the war, she was unable to do so
on account of Istanbul being under
direct threat of German guns, even
though she was least able to carry on
than any of the other belligerents
Conditions at the front became so bad
that soldiers in droves would desert
the front with their guns and take to
the hills risking their lives in doing
SO. These wholesale assertions were
later to prove the salvation of Turkey
as an independent state
During the war Turkey lost all its
Arab possessions as well as Armenia
to more than half her total
area with nearly half her population.
The saddest part was the Armenia
nassacres and counter-massacres and
The decree of 1916 of wholesale
Armenian deportation in which most
If the victims died enroute. Later
Soviet Russia took possession of
Armenia. Having lost her rich oil
fields in Iran and Iraq, Turkey was
low practically stripped to the core
md to top it all, the Greeks invaded
Smyrna in 1916 and committed I'M
Usual cruelty on the Turks residing
here. This turned out to be the last
# Turkeys cup of grief
Mustapha Renal Pasha, an army
Inspector for the eastern provinces,
esigned when he saw the deplorable
ondition of the country and realized
was being sold out Munich style
III began 10 IOTIuuldle plduS OF HIS
wn. He was promptly outlawed by
he Constantinople government but on
uly 23, 1919, he organized a National
arty in opposition to the Sultan's gov
Something like in Yugo-
lavia today, it took on such proper
ons that the Allied powers got I'M
asy fearing it becoming too National
tic too strong.
When it became apparent that the
Dung Turks were on the point of
resting control from the decadent
ultan's regime, British influence in
openly favored the Sui
N as against the young Turks which
,tually produced an opposite effect
the one desired; whereupon the
lpreme council in Paris decided to
Sc force. On March 16, 1920, the
ritish occupying Constantinople de-
'rted some supposed Nationalist
aders including deputies, ministers,
,nerals and journalists (similar to
dia doings), an Extremist govern
ent was put in power in Constan-
lople and the young Turks were de-
mi