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the Turkish Government had been taken by the Persian G
measures weie of the following category *
overnment. These
1. The Persian Government proposed to the Turkish G
tier and take refuge there from Turkish forces.
S. To put these measures into execution the Persian Government ordered
the i ersian Kurdish tribes to come away from the frontier inside the
country so that they may not have any communication with the
Turkish Kurds.
4. As a few Kurds who had previously come from Turkey to Persian terri
tory had not obeyed orders, the Persian Government had expelled
them in consequence.
5. In view of the attention which the Persian Government pays to the Persian
Kurds whom it considers as ordinary Persian subjects, the Persian
Kurds are not allowed either to aid and abet the Turkish Kurds or to
receive the latter as refugees.
6. Our Government has issued instructions to its frontier authorities to co
operate with the Turkish frontier agents with the object of creating
complete confidence, between the two Governments, and in order to
enable the agents of both Governments to take measures with dis
cretion and full knowledge of the situation.
In short, the Persian Government have treated Turkey sineerety like a brother
in this matter, and in view of that we did not expect the Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to publish
such a report without previously referring to reliable official sources of news.
We, who are advocates of centralisation, and who have been following up this
policy for the last fews years in the country ; we, who are always against any kind
of internal instigations and who do not allow anybody to make instigations against
the interests of the country ; we, who know and have faith in the fact that a country
in the first place must establish internal security in order to be able to bring about
other reforms ; and who, with this object in view, have used all our efforts during
the last few years until at length, through the untiring efforts of His Majesty, we
have reached the goal and Persia has become a land of tranquillity and security ;
we, who believe in the principle of maintaining friendship and cordial relations with
our Turkish brethren—and in support of this we have may proofs—how can any
body suspect us of having given refuge to a number of Kurdish insurgents and of
having helped them ?
Apart from the matter of friendly relations, such an action is in principle
contrary to the clear policy and attitude which our Government has adopted. The
policy of the Persian Government is a clear and honourable policy which has never-
been besmirched by such acts.
The report published by the Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. is therefore unfounded, and we
hope that the said agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. will correct this news in the Turkish press and cease to
create misunderstandings without reason.
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{Received on 7th September 1930, with Political Secretary's letter No. 34, dated the 21st
August 1930.)
Despatch from His Majesty’s Embassy, Paris, to the Foreign Office,
London, No. 939 , dated the 14th August 1930.
I have the honour to inform you that the Persian Minister called at His Majesty’s
Embassy this morning. He said that he was not acting on instructions
but that speaking personally he wished to call my attention to the violation of the
Persian frontier by Turkish kroops in pursuit of Kurd elements. 1 he lurkish troops
had entered Persian territory. He did not know when they would leave or even whe
ther they did not intend to stay indefinitely, Jle thought that the Soviet Government
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