Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/3991

The Secretary of the Embassy in Turkey ( Tarler) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Constantinople, April 20, 1917.
[Received April 22, 10.30 p.m.]

2639. The Imperial Government has to-day informed the Embassy that as the Government of the United States has declared itself to be in a state of war with Germany, the Ottoman Government’s ally, it finds it necessary to rupture its diplomatic relations with the United States to-day. American interests have been confided to the Swedish Minister.

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