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XXV. TURKEY 



No telephone exchange work has yet been undertaken in Turkey, 

 nor is likely to be, as a prejudice against it for political reasons 

 is said to exist in high quarters. Many efforts have been made 

 by French and other continental financiers to obtain a concession 

 for Constantinople, but, so far, absolutely without success, the 

 terms proposed by the Government being, most probably in- 

 tentionally, altogether prohibitive. 



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