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Show j RUSSIA AND TURKEY I I j Attempted Post-Bellum Alliance I By Jrederic J. Haskin. j . , - WASH I NG TiD - , D. C, Marclr- 4. The Germans have established a semi -official pa per in Berlin which deals with : Turkish matters. Leading articles are contributed by Ot toman writers. This news hay just reached here in a roundabout round-about way, via. Constantinople and London. Lon-don. With it come other details showing tiiat the (jermans and a certain element anions the Turks are making a a Irons a tternpt to build up an all "a nee between Prussia and Turkey which .shall endure after the war and give Germany an economic eco-nomic and cultural as well as a military hold 011 the road to the near east. It is evident from the same reports that these proponents of a Prusso-Turanian entente cord in le are not having the smoothest sailing. Several things block the way of the sort of an alliance the Prussian military class would like to see established. There is a greit deal 01 popular dislike among tiie common people and soldiery of Turkey Tur-key for the Prussian officer, who antagonized antag-onized public sentiment by his domineering domineer-ing swagger iu the early days of the war. The soft pedal has been put on such conduct by orders from above, but tli1 effect remains. The second obstacle to the domination of Turkey by Prussia is one that will come as a surprise to those who have regarded regard-ed Turkey as the "Sick Alan of Europe." It is a movement known as "Pan-Tura-nianism," or the "Pan -Turanian movement." move-ment." This political current started about six years ai;o, and took on added strength and vigor with the war. Pan-Tura Pan-Tura nia 11 ism is analogous to pan -Germanism: it is an imperialistic movement, aimed at a spread of Turkish domination, northward and eastward. As such, il is repugnant o all the ideals tor which the allies are fighting. On the other hand, it is not entirely obnoxious to allied diplomacy, because il shows an independent inde-pendent s p i r i ;; to wa rd P r u ss i a . It i s a movement for "Turkey uber A lies." including in-cluding the kaiser. A 1 bird obstacle in the way of Prussian Prus-sian domination of Turkey :s 1 lie. lack of sympathy between the German ana the Turkish peoples. The religious question ques-tion enters here, and also a lu'lc of a. common viewpoint. The gap between t he pr-oples is recognized by those who seek-to seek-to brin' teem together. As usuai, Ger-j Ger-j manv is making use of the press, both ! German and Turkish, in art a tternpt to bridge the gap. A number of prominent Turkish jour-naiists jour-naiists were recently invited to Berlin, where they were feted and banqueted with a lavish disrfgard of food shortages. The addresses made 10 these publicists show a realization of the biirrjers 10 a ' popular alliance. A leading Turkish paper, pa-per, reporting tho session, remarks: "ft is true thru we (Turks and ("iermans) were nof stranger? to each oilier, but ihe friendship lacked enrdi.ility. such as exists, ex-ists, for instance, be twen A us; ria-1 Fun-gary Fun-gary mid Germane. Th-1 originitors of t lie 'JMrkish-Gerirui n a Ilia ncr t here fore rococo i zed a r once t '.a 1 1 :i-i r d u t v was ro make the two peoples better acquainted." acquaint-ed." Turks rei::i rd the friendly ad-y:i ad-y:i r.ev of the i ;.-rn:ans wit'.: a cert.ai n air.CJif "f s-;spe;o:i. no: unnatural in v:evc of ;he German policy in Russia and rielsium. Ti'ro is even a tendeney among the Turkish people to regard the Prussians as not absolutely unselfish, strange as that 1 may seem to a world wham has worthed I Teuton: altruism in full bias: for three ! ' p r d a 1 1 al :' y e a rs . T e c-e over- w ; 1 r y ' Turks are thus admonished by anothe ; leading Turkish .i-mrm-il: "It is i?-i:e."j ,' savs Lh:s pc.per, '"h:1.: we have admired! I '.he military, te.-hnb-.d. and S'-icntifi- I ! achievement; of the Germans, but we ' ' ' I.-::.:- : :l:v : v.- : s u-.ere. a: U : ' 'C"j C; h yf VV ;c.. ;.v. jj i'n'tut'a'y::1-:- "mV.'-'.'m u.'-.h. u "ta e' th- fe ! KU-.-...M wovmc.-s of tie- C;.ac:is.s an I -I v : -s..-. .-s w.dl ;,s l-.u:s of if. - $ .c.u ntr-i! A-:a and V--- e : C'e Tur- jj l"vrs.r Kai"-.' d r ' ' Vr '.'ir d Two t-ouJ-.-.-SfS of Ks.ci Mo'-.i m:i."- ' M dans ) r.v eh .-lv l.,--n u.- d. The 1 i-t fe, tick r : : 1 1 rt ;:i:y in the .-iV." of Kax l: . . .' (Pru ar. - -e-rt -po'c'.cnl who atUnnel ' .iii'tn-il rp tht mle ; :U'S o' t1'-;' dc'r- .- -.w.v-i tiv savinL' th..it Is'.. in::.- Re-si:i want- ; ed P loh-'W a prouu-1 ;u na- i'.ar c- : h.ci : 3 of li.c L'kra.n'-. Kverv at:.-'i w:ts mc.ue 1 r'' t. Mir on i-.-hr.-ious ivi:-d iu the br.-as'.s ti.'' M'-ii -imm-.-d-r.s. 'i'ub-s of hurrors ; ,' and brutahe.s :i lle-oU. to ba bc--n ?e-a-:ieed ..-. n R'.:s:an Mohammedans by c":attd. Thev charged, in sum, that the ' H Itusians bad s'.olen land from the ; hirgh.iz wutii the sanction of the rc o- - lutionarv government, that Khirehiv. had ft bem mpss:e'f.-d in Sais;;:i. that :0.oi.a mi- armed Kliiriihiz of both sexes and alt ' ages had t.ei-n shut- in .lulv, RMT. by the Rusuans. Similar tales were circulated i-oiiccrii . ng i'li: s.m .1 :i i ai ni'i-m 01 i : :e ;.j Tartars. The pl;-.n ;s o-bvinusiy to bring j fa a iou I a separatist movcineul among the ft Moha.mrnedans of Russia, which would re- suit either in union with Turkey, or in U t he establishment of an "autonomous" n suite under Turkish domiiu'tion. !p Rerlin does not want matters io go so 1 f;i r. A militant Turanian empire a cross ! the path to the east is no part of ibeltf Prussian plan. If the sick man of the g cast convalesces too completely he will j make trouble. The decline of The Tur- ti kish rower in Purope is simply the sbuy of the falling away of one alien race rl after another from Turanian domination Hj I lie Arya n Greeks, the Sla vie Serbs. W Rulgnrs. Rumanians and Montenegrins. P Put the lands on which the Turkish im- w perialists liave now fixed their eyes are M inhabited by peoples more closely allied U by bloud with the Tin anian strain. t.j The pan-Turan:an muxement has no . ri very bright jiruspeets of achieving its u aims. Resides Ihe opptslon tlvit must J come from Vltissian power, if that na- j t ion ever regains any si re rig i h, and t he fiarrier to the programme eL up lev Rrit- !j ish power in Afghanistan, Persia and 3 Mg-pt, the pan-Turanians 'nave to reckon I with Prussian opposition it' they become yj loo strong, and also with revolt in t heir own borders. K Like all Imperialist movements, pan- b Turanian ism tends to be tyrannical. The h leaders wish to force t lie Turk-ish l.a n-guage n-guage on all non-Turkish subjects of tlie & i Ottoman empire. This alone bus secured t I for them the hostility of the Arabs. The j Arabs -of Arabia are en-operating with fc ; the allies. The Arabs of Syria have pro- E tested against the language scheme. The h ! proportion of people of Turanian blood in y even the present Turkish empire is prob- i ably too small for the movement to sue- j eeed. It is e hie fly significant as show- ft ing an independent spirit in Turkey, and f. as an obstacle to Prussian plans for dom-inating, dom-inating, the people and the country after jij the war. gj |
