An item reported that Iswolski (1) asked the Turkish cabinet what the reason was to mobilize the Turkish fleet.
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1. Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky or Iswolsky (6/18 March 1856 Moscow-16 August 1919 Paris), Russian minister of foreign affairs April 1906-November 1910 and became than ambassador in France. One of the architect of the alliance between the Russian and British empires before the First World War.