Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5072/42.

The Turkish Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Imperial Ottoman Embassy,
Washington, May 19, 1909.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to advise your excellency that His Excellency Rifaat Pasha, minister of foreign affairs, exchanged to-day with the Bulgarian delegate the protocol by which we recognize the new political State of Bulgaria.

Be pleased, etc.,

H. Kiazim.