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The Turkish American Controversy Over Nationality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Leland J. Gordon
Leland J. Gordon*
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Denison University
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The motive force back of immigration into the United States has shown interesting variations. Appealing first to victims of religious tyranny as a haven, the United States of America assumed a new importance in the middle of the nineteenth century as a refuge for victims of political tyranny, and somewhat later for individuals seeking relief from economic poverty. Its democratic form of government offered an undreamed of freedom to millions of politically oppressed people, and its marvelous stores of natural wealth held forth fabulous opportunities for an immigrant to improve his material well-being. The cumulative and collective effects of these inducements resulted in an increasing annual influx of immigrants seeking surcease from oppression of one kind or another which culminated in the most extensive movement of people from one continent to another ever recorded by history.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1931 , pp. 658 - 669
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1931

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1 Revised Statutes, Sections 1999-2001.

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6 Ibid., 1898, p. 36; 1904, pp. 46-47; Foreign Relations, 1900, p. 934.

7 Foreign Relations, 1893, p. x.

8 Ibid., 1894, p. 728.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid., 1885, p. 847; 1892, p. 533; 1894, p. xv; 1898, p. 1108.

11 Moore, J. B., Digest of International Law, Vol. 3, pp. 679-708.

12 Ibid., p. 688.

13 Foreign Relations, 1885, pp. 848-860.

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19 Foreign Relations, 1901, pp. 7, 515.

20 Ibid., 1906, Part II, pp. 140-45; Straus, Oscar, Under Four Administrations, p. 232>.

21 Ibid., 1908, pp. 738-746; see also Report of a Commission appointed by President Roosevelt to study the question, printed as House Document 326, 59th Congress, 2nd Session,Expatriation and Protection Abroad; also this ,Journal , Vol. 2, 1908, pp. 156-160,Expatriation and Protection of Naturalized Americans Abroad and in Turkish Dominions.

22 Embassy Archives, Correspondence, 1925: Minutes of the Meeting of Aug. 6, 1923,published as an appendix to the Turco-Ameriean Treaty of Lausanne, Senate Doc. Ex. Z,68th Cong., 1st Sess.

23 La Legislation Turque, Loi Sur la Nationality Turque, No. 1312, May 28, 1928, Tome VI, pp. 405-509; No. 1414, April 9, 1929, Tome VII, p. 598.