Paris, May 23.
HE Turkish President, General Ismet Monu, in an interview with M. Jerome Tharaud, "Paris Soir" correspondent at Ankara yesterday reasserted Turkey's determination to maintain the status quo of the Balkans.
Turkey is adamantly opposed to any adventurous enterprise in that part of the world, the President said.
"Can you imagine," General Monu told M. Tharaud, "what would be the situation of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece and even Bulgaria, caught between Germany and Italy, if Turkey had not announced she would remain firmly at the side of the Allies to maintain the Balkan status quo Our interests are linked together.
An Allied defeat would be our own defeat." anger of Eire
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