The Archive · 1941

Turkish-British Trade Talks Resumed

Istanbul, Aug. 25.

Trade talks between the Turkish authorities and delegates of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation have been resumed. Since the campaign in Iraq and Syria, they had not been proceeding regularly.

Mumtaz Eukmen, Turkish Minister of Commerce, presided at a meeting lusting all day when all points in Apglo-Turkish trae relations were discussed. The delegates on both sides express great satisfaction at the course of the conversations and prediet a considerable increase shotty in trade between tie two oounttres—Reuter. the gateway to Asia and a big natural bulwark against it.

But what occurred there this morn-different sort of thing al-

's 150,000 armed men face not only a two-edged offensive by modern well-equipped forces, but an aerial offensive to which they have little hope of finding any defence—barring the appearance of the Luftwaffe from Bulgarian and Rumanian bases 1,000 miles away.

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