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TURKEY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[24342]
No. 1.
-{Received May 31.)
Constantijiople, May 31, 1914.
Sir L. Mallet to Sir Edward Grey.
(No. 303.) ^
(Telegraphic.) R.
YOUR telegram No. 242 of 29th May.
I have no objection to the modifications in paragraph 1 proposed by Hakki Pasha.
I strongly depiecate Hakki I asha s proposals for modifications in text suggested in
my telegram No. 293 of 21st May for parapraphs 2, 3, and 5. Their effect would
be to depiive all institutions in hired buildings of all privileges until such time as
they had become proprietors of premises occupied by them, beause they would not
receive firmans until they had done so.
We admitted that, in the case of premises which are used for institutional
purposes, but which are not held in the corporate name of the societies interested or
in the name of trustees, the owners are liable for all real property taxes. In these
cases, which are very numerous, institutions are not given finnans, but they are none
the less entitled to privileges other than [ ? group omitted: ? exemption from] real
property taxes—for instance, exemption from customs duties and recognition as legal
entities of foreign nationality. I think that, in the light of this explanation, the
reasons for the suggestions made in my telegram No. 293 and the effect of Hakki
Pasha's proposals will be obvious.
The most serious of the modifications suggested by Hakki Pasha are those in
paragraph 5. At the same time I deprecate the suggestion of the alteration of my
text of paragraph 2, because the production of plans and title deeds is only necessary
when property is owned by the society responsible for the institutions. As regards
paragraph 3, my own text is somewhat open to criticism on the ground that it implies
that status of institutions in hired buildings is irregular. This implication is much
strengthened by the retention of the words I propose to omit.
[May 31.]
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