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Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.' [221r] (442/576)
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 congregation had to he interpreted into Arabic.
There was, as can be understood, a community that required
their religious teaching in Arabic, their own language,
though they might in a ‘'broken Turkish'" engage in trading.
This mission still exists under the leadership of Dr. Kennedy.
This evidence was considered most satisfactory
as there was then no ground for bias in favour of either
party in 190^, and ihe fact could be independently sub
stantiated by some one’s "poking fun at the Scot, who
translated from German to Arabic" in the Church Magazine of
the said Church. Alexandretta and the whole surrounding
land was then assigned to Syria. In the course of con
versation I remarked, "but the same conditions held round
the coast to Mersine, and there I addressed on a Wednesday
night a congregation of (I think) 90 persons in Arabic".
Later on I was sorry to learn that Cilicia had accordingly
been assigned to Syria, which, had I known beforehand, I
should have deprecated as breaking into Aisa Minor, and
leaving no strategic boundary between it and Syria.
The ethnological question was not considered by
us, but there is much to be said concerning that. I
cannot produce statistics, but from my own travelling-
through the district I think my testimony ought to be that
the Turkish speaking element is to a very large extent
Armenian in race and Turkish in Language, and in case of
any dispute there would be from a plebiscite a definite
Armenian (Turkish-speaking Christian) majority revealed.
In 1896 we spent the summer at Beilan. There was a
Turkish-Armenian Pr#testant Church, which must still exist,
and which I addressed. A massacre was threatened, and
as we could not move out, though warned to do so, I walked
to Alexandretta on the Sunday morning to the Consulate, got
into touch with the Commander Scott (later Sir Percy Scott)
who
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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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- Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.'
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- 219r:222v
- Author
- Christie, William Melville
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