File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [‎288r] (123/494)

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TURK E
IfrU:- i9ig! lly - Revlew of The
tJnder-Secrotary of Foreign
bfrlnnl^ 1 ^^ Relchsta S o« May 12 said 7 "At the
8 ° f thS war a asfens ive alliance of loftr
^ff^ 0 ?V Pr 2 P0sed tey Germa ny> was concluded ana"
ratified by Germany and Turkey. The treaty i”"secret
te 8lVOn at the present '
inc between 1 ^! f llianoe - negotiations have been proceed,
*"8 between the two powers for the last four months
llZl rilltlonTo^^ b re f tle ? regulating their nutual
xegai relations on the basis of equal rights for their
subjects and of European international law. Among them
orotert^nn 1 ^ t 3 f e ^y# a treaty concerning mutual legal
protection in civil courts concerning extradition, and
0f thcir Ejects, The treaties are
, th ?! 9 concluded by Germany with pther powers,
but form a uniform legal system. The negotiations
m«Tn n^? U + te ^ agreement regarding the
,?J? oints ' anc3 - ^ rea ii©s may be expected to be ~
ratified shortly # but the Reichstag will be consulted
before that is done, as constitutional practice pres**
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Resignation of the Shelkh-ul-Islam.
The following are reported to be the reasons f'or
the resignation of the Sheikh-ul-Islam, Hairi Effendi,
and Ills replacement by the well-known Young Turk polite
ician and lawyer Fussa Kiasim Bey
In pursuance of their policy of taking possession
of all the Turkish Departments of State, the Germane
have succeeded in pushing their way into the Ministry
of Public Instruction, where they now exercise a predom
inant influence and control over secular education.
During the last few months symtoms of strong anti-
German propaganda have been manifest In the schhols for
the training of Hojas and Kadis and in the schools'at
Fatih (which are not State-controlled" but come under
the direct supervision of the SheikJh-ul-Xelam,) The
reason for this attitude is the conviction that the
candidates for Government positions from these schools
would not be as favourably considered as those from the
non-religious schools recently established by the Young
Turks under German direction. The Evkaf Ministry
endeavoured to discharge and prosecute those teachers
who had led the meetings of protest. The Sheikh-Ul**Islam
opposed the act'ioh of the Ministry, whereupon the German
officials demanded that in order to avoid a recurrence
of these disorders, the teaching of the Sheikh-ul-Islam
should in future be deleted from the curriculum of the
higher schools for the training of officials. This was
strongly opposed by Hairi Bey.
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