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Show TURKEY YIELDS TO OUR DUNS Naturalized Americans Must be Shown Every Courtesy by Turkish Qovernmcnt Two Men Convicted of Murder Are to be Given a New Trial Just to Pleaso Representatives of Uncle Samuel, Constantinople. Turkey has taken the first step toward yielding 'to the demands of tho American legation by ndmltting the right of the American consular authorities to seo tho Armenians, Ar-menians, Vartnrlan and Afarlan, and Investigate their claims to bo entitled to American protection. Consul General Gen-eral Dickinson has visited tho prisoners pris-oners nnd has opened an Inquiry. Vnrtarlan is charged with tho murder mur-der or a prominent Armenian merchant, mer-chant, Aplk UndJInn, In Constantinople Constantino-ple August 2C. The crlmo wns political. politi-cal. Afnrlan Is nccuscd of participation participa-tion In the plot to nssasslnato the sultan sul-tan July 21, when a bomb was exploded ex-ploded at the conclusion of tho Sela-mlk Sela-mlk ceremony, just as tho sultan was leaving tho mosque. About forty por-sons por-sons 'wero killed by tho explosion. Both Vnrtarlan nnd Afnrian had been sentonced to death, but owing to tho intervention of tho American legation their sentences hnvc been quashed nnd now trials ordered. Washington. The Btntus of this caso is rather Interesting. Vnrtarlan was tried and sentenced to death by a Turkish court. Tho United States government claimed that an article of tho treaty with Turkey of 1830 expressly ex-pressly provided that an American citizen could be tried In Turkey only before his own minister or an American Amer-ican consul. The Turkish government claims that the French translation of this treaty, which was originally drawn In Turkish, was erroneous and thnt the provision was that tho man might bo punished nnd then tried by tho American minister and consul. It holds to this contention, notwithstanding notwith-standing tho fact that In two treaties subsequently negotiated between Turkey on tho ono hand and Franco and Belgium on the other, language was employed embodying exactly tho same principle as the stato departments depart-ments asserts was used In the caso or Its own treaty with Turkey. Now. however, tho Turkish government govern-ment has suddenly shifted .the Issue, and In tho present caso Is claiming that regardless of the treaty or 1830 and Its meaning, Vnrtarlan, having been naturalized In America since 18C7 (prior to which dato all American Amer-ican naturalized citizens aro recognized), recog-nized), must be regarded as n Turkish subject nnd within tho operation of tho Turkish law. |