TURKEY PREPARED
DEFENCE OF NATIONAL INTERESTS BUT DESIROUS OF AVOIDING WAR. STATEMENT BY PREMIER. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. ISTANBUL, February 29. The Premier, Dr Saydam, in a broadcast, said: "I speak to you on the last day of our preparations. Turkey has been preparing intensively for 12 months and is ready for whatever comes. “We have spent £30,000.000 on the army in the past year and that is not the full extent of our preparations.” Nevertheless, said Dr Saydam, the application of the emergency law did not mean that Turkey was preparing for war against Russia. Turkey would enter war only when her national interests and her existence were vitally threatened. “Our relations with Russia,” he continued, “have been unchanged during the past six months. We do not wish to move against the Soviet and see no reason for the Soviet to attack us. A crisis which has covered a large part of the world is now at our door, but our participation and foreign policy will not be influenced by outside combinations.”
The Prime Minister appealed to his countrymen not to believe news not confirmed by official sources. He promised to give the Press a detailed statement of Turkey’s preparations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5
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