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TURKEY 



to the peace conference. This dismemberment 

 of the empire was generally agreed upon as a 

 matter of justice. The following disposal of 

 the various sections has been suggested: 



Turkey to retain the western part of Ana- 

 tolia, which will reduce the Turkish domain to 

 about 150,000 square miles, with a population 

 of less than 9,000,000; Constantinople to be 

 nominally under Turkish suzerainty, but con- 

 trolled by an international commission; the rest 

 of European Turkey to be divided between 

 Greece and Bulgaria; Armenia to be independ- 

 ent, but under the protection of one or more 

 of the powers; Yemen, Hedjaz, and other parts 

 of Arabia to be united into an independent 

 state; Palestine to be an autonomous Jew- 

 ish state; Syria to be independent, under the 

 protection of France; Mesopotamia, independ- 

 ent, under the protection of England; Smyrna 

 and the islands off Anatolia to be given to 

 Greece ; Italy to have a strip along the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



Turbulent conditions were reported in various 

 parts of the former empire several months after 

 the armistice was signed, and stories of new 

 atrocities against the long-suffering Armenians 

 were current. 



Consult Garnett's Turkish Life in Town and 

 Country; Ferriman's Turkey and the Turks (in 

 Europe) ; Percy's The Highlands of Asiatic Tur- 

 key; Gibbons' The Foundation of the Ottoman 

 Empire. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Turkey will find much that is helpful 

 in the following articles in these volumes : 



Adrianople 



Aleppo 



Angora 



Bagdad 



Beirut 



Constantinople 



Armenia 

 Asia Minor 

 Kurdistan 

 Mesopotamia 



CITIES 



Damascus 



Jerusalem 



Mecca 



Medina 



Smyrna 



Trebizond 



DEPENDENCIES 



Palestine 



Syria 



Yemen 



Abd-ul-Hamid 

 Balance of Power 

 Balkan Wars 

 Berlin, Congress of 

 Bosporus 

 Byzantine Empire 

 Crimea 

 Dardanelles 



Rhodes 



HISTORY 



Gallipoli 



Mohammed V 



Russia, subtitle History 



Russo-Turkish Wars 



Seljuks 



Solyman II 



War of the Nations 



Young Turks 



ISLANDS 



Scio 



RIVERS 



Euphrates Tigris 



Jordan 



UNCLASSIFIED 



Koran Turks 



Mohammedanism 



TURKEY, a group of game birds related to 

 the pheasants and native to North America. 

 There are but two species the Yucatan and 

 Central American turkey, a small, brilliantly- 

 colored bird with eyoliko spots on the tail 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Carpets and Rugs Fig 



Date and the Date Palm Olive 



How bless'd, how envied, were our life, 

 Could we but 'scape the poulterer's knife ! 

 But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys, 

 And Christmas shortens all our days : 

 Sometimes with oysters we combine, 

 Sometimes assist the savory chine ; 

 From- the low peasant to the lord, 

 The Turkey smokes on every board. 



GAY : Fables. 



coverts; and the wild turkeys of Mexico and 

 the United States, representing five subspecies. 

 The wild turkey of Southern Mexico is the 

 breed from which the domesticated turkey of 

 the poultry yard is derived the turkey that 

 finds a place on the dinner table at Thanksgiv- 

 ing time and at Christmas festivities in count- 

 less homes. 



The common wild turkey was once abundant 

 as far north as Maine and Southern Ontario, 

 and is the noblest game bird in America. Un- 

 fortunately, it is rapidly approaching extinction. 

 The adult male is about four feet long and is 

 clothed in handsome plumage with metallic- 

 green, copper and bronze reflections. The body 

 feathers are tipped with black and the tail and 

 upper tail coverts with chestnut. A long tuft 

 of bristlelike feathers hangs from the center of 



