Turkey ordering warships in Japan according to the Dutch newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 25 May 1934

This Dutch newspaper published a remarkable item dealing with the relations between Turkey and Japan principally based on a telegram received from Angora. The journalist referred to the last World War and how problematic a economic blockade of Germany had been regarded what he called the continued voyage’. The telegram reported that Turkey was to order 10 small cruisers in Japan allowing Japan to manufacture textile in Turkey which were to be sold as Turkish products on European markets. Also was Japan allowed to export half manufactured textile towards Turkey and which after being completed were again sold on European markets as products from Turkish origin. In the same telegram was also something said that Turkey intended to build submarines and planes.

Regarded the building of the small cruisers. The fact that it were small and not heavy cruisers didn’t say everything according to the journalist while Japan was building at that moment small cruisers for her own navy with a displacement smaller as limited by the Washington Treaty but with a formidable armament strong enough to be a real opponent for 1st class cruisers. The enforcement of the Turkish military forces was according to him a strategically move of Japan to obtain a fast position in the West. In case of a conflict with Russian was the Russian Black Sea Fleet the first victim while risking to be locked up at the Black Sea.