Mavi Boncuk |
To the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :
The National Congress of Sivas, representing the entire Mohammedan population of European Turkey and Asia Minor, and composed of delegates representing every Province and State in said portions of the Ottoman Empire, assembled on September 4, 1919, for the purpose of securing the fulfillment of the wishes of the majority of the population of the Empire with the protection of all minorities and with life, liberty, justice, and inviolability of property rights guaranteed for all.
The National Congress of Sivas, by unanimous vote on September 9, 1919, passed a resolution outlining the desires of the majority of the population of the Ottoman Empire and embodying the principles which will guide the future action of the congress at Sivas, the central committee, which it will elect from among its members before dispersal, and all of the subsidiary organizations within the frontiers of the Empire.
In accordance with the said resolution of policy, the National Congress of Sivas this day, by unanimous vote, requests the Senate of the United States of America to send a committee of its Members to visit all confines of the Ottoman Empire for the purpose of investigating, with the clear vision of a disinterested nation, conditions as they actually are in the Ottoman Empire, before permitting the arbitrary disposal of the peoples and territories of the Ottoman Empire by a treaty of peace.
In the name of the National Congress of Sivas:
PRESIDENT MOUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA.
VICE PRESIDENT HUSSIEN RAOUF.
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT TAMAILFAZIL PASHA.
General en Retraite.
SECRETARY EMIR XAMAIL HAMEY
SECRETARY M. CHUKRI.
SIVAS, TURKEY, September 9, 1919.