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Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.' [227r] (454/576)
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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aspect as follows:-* In 1921 France had. negotiated, and could only
negotiate, with Turkey in the capacity of mandatory for Syria; France
had never received any direct sovereignty over the Sanjak and could
not have assumed it through a frontier delimitation agreement; the
Sanjak had no special juridical claim to independence outside Syria,
Turning to more recent history of Sanjak, M. Vienot said that the
Turkish Government had raised no objection to treatment given to
Turkish elements there throughout last 15 years, nor to the collabora
tion of the Sanjak and its elected deputies in national life of Syria,
In 1950 Council had approved Organic Law of Syria and special autonomous
statute of Sanjak embodied therein.
Turning to the future, M. Vienot pointed out that, pending entry
into force of Franco-Syrian Treaty, Turkey would have full opportunity
to make objections and propose amendments in course of detailed con
sideration v/hich would be given to Treaty by the various organs of the
League. In any case, Treaty settlement as drafted could not affect
existing rights of Turks in the Sanjak since new r Syrian State was
contracting vis-a-vis France to respect existing international obliga
tions. For this reason it had not been necessary to make specific
mention of Sanjak in the draft Treaty. Furthermore, population of
Sanjak would benefit by general minority guarantees as embodied in
exchange of notes between French and Syrians included in treaty settle
ment wnich gave French Government right to intervene, if necessary, in
support of these guarantees.
ivi. Vienot maintained that France had taken ail necessary precautions
'vis-a-vis Syrians to safeguard existing rights of population of Sanjak.
nevertueless, as token of their friendship towards Turkish Government,
trench Government had been ready to offer further guarantees through
auditionax Franco-Syrian exchange of letters. But Turkish Government
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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.'
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- 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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