Show TURKEY YIELDS ya Os TO OWNS naturalized americans must be shown every courtesy b by y turkish government lovern ment I 1 two men convicted of murder are to do be given a new trial just to please representatives of uncle samuel constantinople turkey has taken the first step toward yielding to the d demands lands ot of the american legation by admitting the right of the american consular authorities to see the ar montane men ians Var tarlan and and Afa afarian ilan and investigate their claims to be entitled to american protection consul gen gain oral dickinson has visited the prisoners and has opened an inquiry Var tarlan Is charged with the murder murr r ot of a prominent arme armenian nian merchant merno r apik Un djian in n constanel Const constantinople antl no ale august 26 the c rime crime was political 1 afarian Is se accused cuse d ol of participation in the plot to assassinate the sultan july 21 when hen a bomb was exploded at the conclusion ol of the sela mik ceremony just as the sultan was leaving the mosque about forty persons were killed by the exploit explosion on both Var tarlan and atarian had bad been sentenced to death but owing to the intervention ot of the american legation their sentences have been quashed bed and now new trials ordered id washington the status ot of this case Is rather interesting Var tarlan was tried and sentenced to death by a turkish court the united states government claimed that an article of the treaty with turkey of 1830 expressly provided that an american citizen could lie be tried in turkey only before his own minister or an amerlean american consul the turkish government claims that the french translation ot of this treaty which was originally drawn in turkish was err erroneous odeous and that the provision was tb that at the man might be punished and then tried by the american minister find and consul it holds to this contention notwithstanding stand I 1 ng the tact fact that in two treaties subsequently subsequently negotiated between turkey u on the one hand and franco 0 and belgium on the other language was employed embodying exactly the same fame principle its as the state departments asserts was used in the case ot of its own treaty with turkey now however the turkish government has suddenly aly shifted the issue and in the present case Is claiming that regardless ot of th the treaty of 0 1830 and its meaning Vor Var tarlan having been naturalized in america since 1867 prior to which dato date all amerlean american naturalized citizens are race recognized g must bo be regarded RS as a turkish sh subject and within the operation ot of the turkish law |