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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Turkish cabinet mobilized navy according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 16 June 1910

An item reported that Iswolski (1) asked the Turkish cabinet what the reason was to mobilize the Turkish fleet.

Note
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.