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Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.' [6r] (12/576)
The record is made up of 1 file (286 folios). It was created in 17 Sep 1936-31 Aug 1939. It was written in English. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Turkey).
July 6, 1939.
CONFIDENTIAL.
IQ
37
Section 2.
[Amended : see additional relevant papers, p. 8.]
[E 4837/1142/44]
Copy No.
Sir H. Knatchbull-Hugessen to Viscount Halifax.—{Received July 6.)
(No. 357.)
My Lord, Angora, June 29, 1939.
WITH reference to my telegram No. 305 of the 21st June, I have the honour
to transmit to your Lordship the accompanying copies of the following instru
ments regarding the settlement of the Hatay question, which were signed at
Angora on the 23rd June by the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs and the
French Ambassador in Angora :—
(1) An arrangement for the settlement of territorial questions between
Turkey and Syria;
(2) A protocol concerning certain financial questions and the acquisition by
the Turkish Government of property hitherto in French ownership;
(3) Two annexes to the protocol;
(4) A yroces-verbal concerning the property of persons opting for Syrian or
Lebanese nationality;
(5) An exchange of letters recognising the validity of the contracts of three
archaeological expeditions; and
(6) An exchange of letters relating to the transfer abroad of the moneys of
persons of foreign nationality.
Copies of the texts of these instruments have been furnished to me by the French
Ambassador.
2. So far as the interests of British subjects are concerned, it will be
observed that the second exchange of letters between M. Siikru Saracoglu and
M. Massigli places on record the decision of the Turkish Government to accord
on request to foreign persons and companies established in the Hatay the same
facilities for the export of foreign currency and of the proceeds in Turkish
currency of their property as are secured by article 4 of the main agreement and
by the proces-verbal to persons opting for Syrian or Lebanese nationality. A
further point of interest is that the Turkish Government have agreed by the
former exchange of letters to recognise as valid the contract for archaeological
research in the Hatay granted on the^st October, 1936, to the British Museum.
3. I am sending copies of this* despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Paris (without enclosures) and to I^is Majesty’s consular officers at Aleppo and
Alexandretta (with enclosures). '
# 1 ,. / I have, &c.
H. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN.
Enclosure.
Arrangement portant Reglement definitif des Questions territoriales entre la
Turquie et la Syrie.
Preambule.
LE President de la Republique fran^aise et le President de la Republique
turque,
Ayant egard aux dispositions enoncees dans Tarticle 7 de TAccord du
20 octobre 1921 et dans la niUfiJfiri i7 P f Q
ENCLOSURE IN WEEKLY LETTER
[655 f—2]
B
Ho. 3 5 3 i AUG 19o9
FHOM SECRETARY. POLITICAL ARC
ICORET DSPT. HIPtA OFFICE
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This file documents the British response to developments regarding the status of the Sanjak [administrative district, referred to in Arabic as Liwa] of Alexandretta, including the cities of Alexandretta [İskenderun, Turkey] and Antioch [Antakya, Turkey].
The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Ambassador, Istanbul (Sir Percy Loraine, succeeded by Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen); His Majesty's Ambassador, Bagdad [Baghdad] (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, succeeded by Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson); His Majesty's Ambassador, Paris (Sir George Russell Clerk, succeeded by Sir Eric Phipps); the British Consul, Aleppo (Archibald William Davis); the British Consul, Damascus (Gilbert MacKereth); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Reader William Bullard); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden); officials of the Foreign Office.
The correspondence includes discussion of the following:
- The demography of the Sanjak of Alexandretta.
- Turkey's claim for the Sanjak to be given autonomy.
- The progression of Franco-Turkish negotiations, brokered by the League of Nations and resulting in the Sanjak's new autonomous status (in its internal affairs only), as granted in a League of Nations statute, concluded in January 1937 and brought into force on 29 November 1937.
- Reports of both Arab and Turkish demonstrations in Alexandretta and Antioch during January 1937 (as well as Arab demonstrations in Aleppo).
- Pressure from Syria and Iraq for the Sanjak to be partitioned between Syria and Turkey.
- The reported registration of non-Turkish electors in the Sanjak as Turks.
- Reported divisions in the Syrian Nationalist Government.
- The conclusion of a treaty of friendship between France and Turkey in July 1938.
- The announcement in September 1938 that the Sanjak of Alexandretta will in future be known as the Republic of Hatay, with Antioch as its capital.
- The Franco-Turkish agreement regarding the change of status of Hatay to that of a Turkish province, concluded in June 1939.
The French language material in the file consists of several items of correspondence, plus copies of the aforementioned Franco-Turkish agreement (dated 23 June 1939) and the Turco-French treaty (dated 4 July 1938).
The file includes two dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence (folios 2-3).
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- 1 file (286 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 287; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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