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The Exploitation of Turkey
November 14, 1923 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway. A Study in Imperialism," by Edward Mead Earle. Fifty years hence it may be that the historian will regard the Great War primarily as an acceleration of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Certainly, the division of Turkey into spheres of influence since 1918 is only completing frankly what was already well begun indirectly before 1914. In March, 1914, Sir Mark Sykes said in the House of Commons apropos of the Franco-German convention of 1913: "In practice, loans, kilometric guaranties, monopolies, and a financed native press must pave the way to annexation.

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TURKEY, the Great Powers & the Bagdad Railway: A Study in Imperialism (Book); EARLE, Edward Mead; ANTITRUST law; MONOPOLIES; TRADE regulation; IMPERIALISM
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