TURKEY: Revolt

Fethi Bey, Turkish Prime Minister, last week turned his head this way and that, like a victim in the hands of a photographer, but never would he look in the lens. At last he gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik Said, against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts...