Show TURKEY YIELD constantinople pt 19 turkey lias taken toward yielding to the of the american legation by aa atins me right of american 0 o see tho and afarian and claims to be entitled to american protection consul general dickinson has visited the arla boners and bas opened an inquiry contrary to general report minister audience with the sultan september 15 was merely a courtesy visit and was not connected with tho present diplomatic difficulty to which neither the sultan nor mr Lc ishman alluded Vart drian is with the murder ot a prominent armenian merchant apak n constantinople august 26 the crime was political li starlan Is accused of participation in tho plot to assassinate the sultan july 21 when a bomb was exploded at the conclusion of the ceremony just as the sultan was leaving the mosque about lorty persons were killed by the explosion both and afarian had been sentenced to death but owing to the intervention tion of the american their sentence have been quashed and new the status of this case is rather interesting te 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 provides that an american citizen could be tried in turkey only before tola own minister or an american consul the turkish government claims that tho french translation of tills treaty was originally drawn iby turkish was erroneous and that the provision was that the man might be and then tried by the american minister and consol it holds to this contention notwithstanding the tact that in two treaties subsequently negotiated between turkey on he one hand and france and belgium on the other language was employed embodying exactly the same principle as the detata department asserts was used in the case of its own treaty with turkey now however the turkish government has suddenly aud denly shifted the cissne ana in the present case is claiming that regardless of the treaty 0 1830 and its meaning var tarlan having been naturalized in america since 1867 prior to which date all american naturalized citizens are recognized must be regarded as a turkish subject and within the operation of the turkish law the state department part ment is embarrassed in meeting this contention but the fact that nearly all the nations of continental europe take the same view as does turkey of this lack of power on tae part of their citizens to expatriate themselves without the consent of the government to meet these conditions the british government and some others issue passports to naturalized citizens with the express stipulation that faey are hot the county of their nativity the state department cannot do this and it is probable that even congress cannot constitutionally undertake to discriminate between american citizens clothing native citizens with greater powers accorded to naturalized natural zed so the state department part ment has tha only relief Is to be found fa a naturalization treaty with turkey and all efforts secure such action hibb have been in progress for years past mill be redoubled it is a fact that in president grants administration such a treaty was not only negotiated and ratified and references were exchanged but the treaty was never proclaimed because the turkish government insisted on an interpretation of the principal article of 0 treaty which completely reverted he american purpose |