File No. 711.673/33.
The Turkish Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, September 10, 1914.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by Imperial Irade the Ottoman Government has abrogated as from the first of October next the conventions known as the Capitulations restricting the sovereignty of Turkey in her relations with certain Powers. All privileges and immunities accessory to these conventions or issuing therefrom are equally repealed. Having thus freed itself from what was an intolerable obstacle to all progress in the Empire, the Imperial Government has adopted as basis of its relations with the other Powers the general principles of international law.
Accept [etc.]