Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — FUGITIVE TURK A KING [ARTICLE]

FUGITIVE TURK A KING

' ',r' " Enver Pasha, a Pro-German, Has Accepted Kurd's*; Throne. Enver Pasha, former Turkish minlater of war, has been crowned king of Kurdistan, the Turkish region lying between Mesopotamia and Persia. Kurdistan Is an extensive region with ill-defined borders. Its population indudes 2,000,000 people, most of whom are Mohammedans. Enver Pasha was minister of war In the Turkish cabinet from January. 1914, to October, 1918. He was leader of the Young Turks* an ardent proGerman and an enthusiastic pupil of the German general von der Goltz. After the signing of the armistice Enver fled from Constantinople to Berlin in disguise. He was arrested on request of the Turkish government, but escaped. Though a sentence of ..death rests over him for acts committed during the war, he is a king and probably will escape punishment