'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil' [‎163v] (324/501)

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Enclosure in No. 1.
Co ante) Reply to the Memorandum of the Turkish Deleaation concerninq the
Question of the Vilayet of Mosul "
Turkisfl delegation, far from being convincing, only
must eL,n a I1 a' I ?f | 0 the , conten t>on that the Mosul Vilayet is naturally and
are disposed of I v thl n mailUat ° r y are a of Irak. Many of the Turkish arguments
Nevertheless thm-L th prewo 1 ns Bri . t i sh memorandum, dated the 14th December
-Nevertheless they have again been given full consideration.
1. Racial.
no correct 0 "rurl iT, J ^ I,kiS f !f ove ™ ment rule d the Mosul Vilayet for many centuries
aware are there a, P ° f 16 Vlla -Y et . ex ists, nor, so far as the British delegation is
Government. On the othefhand British °ffi “ ''w^ 1 ?° lle r ted by the ' Tur hi«h
accurate maps of X wUnJt ’ B f ° fficers durm S the last fe w years have made
delegatfon h'artherefore ^7“ '“T v ‘« lte d.every corner of It. The British
likely to be accurate than’ X.J. , t !f )n . r 01 ,' • t , lln , k ! ng that lts . statistics are more
bear'no date. The British f' 6 delegation, which, it may be noted,
who simply pass part of thf.ii V • °j f Urd ? 10 no ^ include those Persian Kurds
tribes. Kea to which ^hev hnf 1D Ir8k ; 4s , to the llomad an d semi-nomad Arab
0„,y Arabs
given bv tlm Turkish'dMegat\ ? on S for 1 th^H ll be ,, ! us f rat f d b y reference to the figures
tic. states (I) that there freZr rnnn A S r ma ^ yeh llwa ' The Turkish delega-
ardent Arab patriot claims that it omt la * m ^is area, whereas not even the most
are half as numLous as the Kurds aPh" 8 T Al ' abs at all; and ( 2 ) tb at the Turks
Turk among the Sulaimaniveh Kimd 0 lI th ? Ugh f eVCTy trave,| er knows that to meet a
a Greek in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. . But still more open “tuition isVhe'r 11 ^ to meet
there are only 28,000 Arabs in the Mosul “ - V s the Turkish statement that
town alone contains twice that number of Arabs 'w/V* not h orlol,s . that Mosul
ledge gained by British officials durino the la 8 A| t /f 0 ™, the ‘ntimate know-
travellers before the war as one of Kent a! 7 years ’ Mosul was "’ell known to
that a population who, with insignificant exceprionrpdk "'^l "a a ’i e asked to beIieve
•selves Arab, are really Turks who hannen nTh i t k °, n 7 Ar . ahlc and call them-
rs on a par with that in which the Turkish Hef eanied Arab ' c - Ibis argument
Turkish character of an area bv referring to d the S T, 10 L 'f temptS t0 establ ish the
ullages, forgetting that in the preceding parae-ranhbp h* S ' 'i 131 "” of some ot ' the
area bearing the purely Arab name of Asdilir sf ba P R ha<1 C ?, aimed as Turkish an
mg it might be demonstrated that Diarbekr and Mar.rrif f , '| I f r . proc ' ess C)f reason-
and that Constantinople, Adrianople Konia and AnJ7 t ' al ^ ZIZ are Arab towns
mentation that would probably not be welcome to if 't n''? ek dties ’ an ar gu-
Further, the Turkish contention fhat ^l. i lurk ! sh delegation,
map (Carte ethnographique de BEmpire ottrmian?"»■ hiol urklsh confuted by a
»ami Bey as an official map during thenegotiations in To^ Wa? p ™ duced b V Bekir
map though it indicates as inhabited bv Turks and Ka.rds r i7 m March 1921 This
is actually occupied by those two races nevmhel» K 8 ther more t^itory than
forward in the British memorandum of’the 14th viz ^'th’Tp hll u y the claim P nt
town of Mosul, the whole of the country north of Mo’, i h . e whole of the great
1 igns as tar as the boundary of the vilayet the wLf 7 i° n the ri g ht ban k of the
on the right bank of the Tigris, and most of .L ^ t ° f the coun try south of Mosul
bank of the Tigris as far as the Erbil-Kirkii-Kifn road T 1 '^' , Mosul on the left
Enable, even with the aid of the onni-Pnfi ^ 1Tr ! . r ? , ’ are Arab,
preceding paragraphs, to show that there is 1 TurkTshma ^ ^ emolls hed in the
the Turkish delegation then proceeds to reinfnmo f 1 ma J or 1 lt E m Mosul Vilavet
that the Kurds and the Turks are of tie S am e lck “ru b I tb e. astounding dkm
n.idli expect credence for such a claim in face of a ,,p "i 'V' klsb delegation can
tongue closely allied to Persian, whose national custom? ! Wh ° ^ 6ak an Ira nian
Turks, ^ho m particular differ from the Turks in fi 1A1 - msare unlike those of the
an extent that the theory of a different origin W tltude to wome n ‘o such
?f,f, bl ‘ sk ! d by .. that di , ffer , e , nce alone, and fvho nres!?i Jr 3063 « )uld almost be
established by that difference alone^nTwho D°re^ races could almost' b
striking a contrast to the Turks thata traveler Can? a “ pl } ysical a PPearance s
mixed can tell merely by looking at the faces of ^ neoffi7 "IM 116 po P ulation j
1 pie whether a particnD
so
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