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Coll 28/76 ‘Persia. Turkey. Turco-Persian Frontier.’ [204r] (407/429)
The record is made up of 1 file (213 folios). It was created in 18 Jul 1927-24 Jan 1935. It was written in English and French. 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 Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
1
PERSIA.
4072 I
[August 2, 1927.J
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 4.
1 9° 7 1
[E 3377/2822/34]
No. 1.
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35
N2.
Sir R. Clive to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—{Received August 2.)
(No. 356. Secret.)
Sir, ^ Gulhek, July 10, 1927.
WI1H reference to my telegram No. 121 of the 25th June and to your telegram
No 89 of the L2th July on the subject of the present Turco-Persian frontier troubles,
I have the honour to submit the following observations : —
2. Shortly after my conversation with the Minister of the Court on the 25th
June, a brief but very violent and abusive press campaign started against the Turks,
accusing them of having ambitions on Persian territory. I telegraphed accordingly
to 1 lis Majesty’s consul at Tabriz and requested him to try and ascertain and to
report the actual facts. Mr. Gilliat-Smith replied on the 5th July that Turkish troops
had crossed the frontier near Bazurgah towards the end of May ostensibly in pursuit
of rebel Kurds. The Persian authorities protested and the Turkish troops were
withdrawn. Two days later I saw the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and asked
him what the present position was, and whether the Persian Government had based
the protest, which I understood they had made, on the 1913 protocol. Pakraven
confirmed that the Persian Government had protested, but said the protest had not
been based on the protocol. He added that a place called Sirosatik, south-west of
Lake Urumia, had been occupied by the Turks. What the Persian Government
particularly objected to was the presence of armed bands of Turkish Kurds who
continued to violate the frontier in spite of the assurances of the Turkish Government
that the Kurds had all been disarmed.
3. A few days ago the French military attache asked M&jor Fraser what all the
trouble was about. The French consul at Tabriz, who was usually well-informed, had
reported that the position on the frontier was not exceptional. It seems evident
therefore that Teymourtache deliberately exaggerated the state of affairs to me for
some reason which is not clear.
4. Yesterday Major Fraser discussed the matter with the chief of the General
Staff. General Shaibani said that the real trouble was that the Turks refused to
recognise the boundary defined in 1913, and yet I have the Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs’ categorical statement that the protest made to the Turkish Government was
not based on the 1913 protocol.
5. From a secret and reliable source I have reason to know that the Turkish
Ambassador has been in discussion with Teymourtache on this question of the
frontier, and it may be that the Persian Government are endeavouring to negotiate
with the Turks a special frontier agreement outside the 1913 protocol which both
parties would then denounce as void. In furtherance of this scheme—supposing my
supposition is correct—Teymourtache first endeavoured to induce His Majesty’s
Government to protest to the Turkish Government against this breach of the protocol
and then let loose the press—the most offensive article was in the semi-Government
organ the “ Tran '’—in order to stir the Turk into activity and bring him to the point
of negotiating a new agreement.
b I nv ill endeavour to ascertain more about what seems to me a rather mysterious
manoeuvre, and shall of course lie most guarded in any future conversations I may
have on the subject with Teymourtache.
I have, &c.
R. H. CLIVE.
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Correspondence, maps and other papers exchanged between British officials in response to a 1927 dispute between Persia [Iran] and Turkey over the delimitation of the frontier between the two countries. The dispute arose when Persian troops crossed the frontier into Turkey. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran; HM’s Ambassador at Constantinople, George Russell Clerk, who also wrote from his summer residence at Therapia [Tarabya]. The file covers:
- Correspondence dated 1927 commentating on diplomatic relations between Persia and Turkey, and the diplomatic efforts between the two countries to resolve the frontier dispute
- The ratification of an agreement between the Governments of Persia and Turkey, establishing the frontier between the two countries. A copy of the agreement (in French), dated 1933, is included in the file (ff 34-35).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (213 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 214; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, front-i, 2r:10v, 12r:19v, 22r:32v, 35r:48r, 50v:51v, 55r:68r, 69r:73v, 75r:77v, 80r:89v, 91r:92v, 94r:97v, 99r:143v, 145r:170v, 172r:175v, 180r:189v, 191r:197v, 199r:214v, back
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