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Show uu - PUT AN END TO TURKEY Turkey should die. As a nation, the Turks have forfeited at least the rlcht to rule over people not of their race or religion. Djemed Boy, minister of the interior at Constantinople, has declared that 800,000 Armenians were massacred since the beginning of the war. Th.it is one of the worst disclosures in Um history of awful national crimes, and one of the appalling features is that Germany, as an ally of Turkey, con-doped con-doped the massacres. On more than one occasion Germany was called on by the entente to stop the horrors of the Armenian butcheries, but the German Ger-man military authorities, who were virtually In supreme command over the Turkish forces, disregarded the appeals. ap-peals. The Armenian massacres are beyond be-yond belief, they were so widespread and horrible. First the men were killed and then the women and flrtl were subjected to vile abuses and gradually worn down by hardships and starvation. Thousands of them were taken out to sea in ships and thrown overboard. Others were marched into the desert regions and released, where they died the slow death of starva tion. Countless thousands were phot or ! sabered. Turkey aa a nation has been found guilty of wholesale murder. The pn-ulty pn-ulty should be the obliteration of Turkish Turk-ish rule in Europe. Constantinople and the Dardanelles should be ruled 'over by a commission representing ,ihe allies and that part of Turkey in 1 Asia, which is not purely Turk, should (be segregated from the old empire. The present Turkish government I should be destroyed. I |