Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1944, General, Volume I

840.48 Refugees/12–1444

The Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the American Embassy in Turkey ⁴⁹

[Translation]

In reply to the note verbale of the Embassy of the United States of America, No. 1034, dated September 8, 1944,⁵⁰ the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the honor to inform the Embassy as follows:

It has become impossible to carry into effect the proposal of the Government of the United States concerning the issuance of Turkish visas to certain categories of persons living in Germany, as a result of the rupture of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the latter country.

Moreover, the liberation of the Balkan countries by the Allied armies is solving the problem of the persecuted persons in these countries.

Nevertheless, in accordance with the spirit of collaboration which the Government of the Republic has always manifested in the matter of refugees, this Ministry will not fail to take into consideration the desire expressed in the Embassy’s note. To this end, the Turkish Consulates in the Balkan countries have received instructions to insert, in appropriate cases, in the questionnaires to be completed by the persons applying for visas, their qualifications for obtaining an American visa.

Ankara , December 6, 1944.

49. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in Turkey in his despatch 946, December 14; received December 30.
50. Not printed; for substance, see telegram 2918, August 24, 7 p.m., to Bern, p. 1135.