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Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.' [216r] (432/576)
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
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PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S boYERNM^X^
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December 7, l^SB.
EASTERN (Syria).
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[E 7611/688/89] Copy No.jLi7
Sir P. Loraine to Mr. Eden.—(Received December 7.)
(No. 591.)
Sir, Angora, December 2, 1936.
I HAVE the honour, with reference to my telegram No. 190 of the
2nd December on the subject of the difference which has arisen between the French
and Turkish Governments respecting the Sanjak of Alexandretta, to transmit to
you herewith—
(1) Copies of the second Turkish white book containing the texts of notes
exchanged with the French Government on the 10th November and the
17th November.
(2) An account, published by the Turkish official news
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, of the
statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Grand
National Assembly on the 27th November.(‘)
2. A spirited debate followed this statement, in the course of which several
Deputies, amid much cheering, strongly criticised France’s treatment of the
Turkish population of the sanjak. Others threatened to take the sanjak by force
whatever the decision of the League Council. Others, again, described the sanjak
as Turkey’s Alsace-Lorraine and demanded the immediate abolition of the
unnatural frontier which separated Turk from Turk; the annexation of the
sanjak to the motherland, and the creation of a new national frontier from the
Orontes to the Euphrates. At the close of the debate the Assembly gave its
approval of the Government’s decision to accept the reference of the dispute to
the Council of the League of Nations.
3. I am sending a copy of this despatch (less the first enclosure) to His
Majesty’s Ambassador at Paris.
I have, &c.
PERCY LORAINE.
C) Not printed.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- Title
- Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 11r:12v, 14r:23v, 26r:81v, 84r:84v, 87r:131v, 133r:170v, 172r:194v, 196r:217v, 223r:236v, 239r:263v, 265r:287v, back
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