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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [61r] (121/398)
The record is made up of 199 folios. It was created in 12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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to any Turkish subject, his Consul not having the right
to assist him in any way nor ooull he plead any rights
under the Capitulations 0 Thus, with the transfer recorded
he becomes, for all matters concerning that land, practi
cally a Tuzkish subject, though enjoying his own nation
ality. If he neglects to have the transfer to his own
name recorded, he has no right to appear as a party at an
in any Turkish Court. The courts will only recognize and
hear those foreigners in whose names the land actually
stands in the "Tapu H office books, while Turks, of course,
always have the right to appear by virtue of their nation
ality. This example will show what is the legal position
of a foreigner acquiring land in Basrah.
(11). The authorities in Basrah, however go beyond this
legal position and insist on Turkish nationality certifi-
oates being produced by all and sundry, under threat of
refusing registration of transfer. They rely on the
natural ignorance and fear of legal technicalities prevail
ing among the Arabs onu Persians who wish to acquire land
in the Basrah Yilayat as well as their apprehension of
losing property already paid for, without a possibility of
legal remedy. This belief is sedulously fostered by the
authorities amongst the ignorant, but no such preposterous
demand is made from an English French or other subject
who is certain to make enquiries and ascertain the legal
position. So successful has the misrepresentation been
that several r/ealthy and well educated men connected with
Basrah, with whom I have discussed the matter,refused to
believe that I could personally acquire land in Basrah and
have the transfer registered in the "Tapu" office in my
own name without first bee caning a Turkish subject myself.
In addition to the above, the authorities refuse to admit that
Kuwaitis
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The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near Fao, both of which were in Turkish territory. In both cases, the Turkish authorities insisted that the Shaikh should first register himself as an Ottoman subject before they would allow the legal formalities of ownership to be completed.
The principal correspondents are the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909 Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the British Consul at Basrah (also referred to as Bussorah) [Basra] (Francis Edward Crow); the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Gerald Augustus Lowther); Shaikh Mubarak; and senior officials of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office.
The papers cover: papers concerning the Fao property, including the Shaikh's appeals for a committee of inquiry and arbitration over the matter, January 1908 - July 1909 (folios 115-199); papers concerning the Fadaghia property, February 1909 - December 1910 (folios 6-114); Foreign Office paper containing a memorandum communicated to the Turkish Ambassador concerning the Bagdad railway question and other matters, July 1911 (folios 4-5); and correspondence concerning a false report in a Turkish newspaper that an allowance had been granted by the Turkish Government to Shaikh Mubarak, May-July 1912 (folios 2-3).
The French language content of the papers is confined to three folios of newspaper extracts (folios 133-135).
The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents contained in the papers; the covering dates of the Secret Department minute papers that enclose them, as given on folio 1, are 1908-1912.
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