Embassies

Most of the Ambassadors and Ministers accredited to the Turkish President, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, reside in their old embassies at Constantinople, although the new capital and the Turkish Parliament is at Angora (about 240 miles southeast of Constantinople, in the heart of Anatolia.

Last week, the Turks invited the Powers to transfer their embassies and legations to Angora, reminding them that facilities existed for the construction of new buildings.

For hundreds of years, Constantinople was the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Most Powers have costly embassies in that city which they cannot easily dispose of; and, if they do, it must involve large losses, owing to the depreciation in the value of real estate in the former Capital. Moreover, Angora presents other difficulties. Aside from the cost of erecting new diplomatic edifices--there are no buildings in Angora that could accommodate an embassy--communications to and from the capital are extremely bad and the climate is not so healthy as that on the banks of the Bosphorus.