. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . dependent, and differ very little from thedemands made by Russia in 1876 on behalf of Bul-garia, which led to the Russo-Turkish War. TheSultan knew that the difficulties which beset him weregreat, and he at once altered the ministry andappointed an intensely anti-English Grand the president of the commission to investi-gate the Sassoun massacres was made the Minister ofForeign Affairs. Under such conditions there was amanifest unwillingness on the part of the Turkishgovernment t
. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . dependent, and differ very little from thedemands made by Russia in 1876 on behalf of Bul-garia, which led to the Russo-Turkish War. TheSultan knew that the difficulties which beset him weregreat, and he at once altered the ministry andappointed an intensely anti-English Grand the president of the commission to investi-gate the Sassoun massacres was made the Minister ofForeign Affairs. Under such conditions there was amanifest unwillingness on the part of the Turkishgovernment to comply with the reforms as suggestedby the Powers. Of all the Powers, England was apparently the mostfirm in its demands for immediate adoption of themeasures. The Sultan hesitated much. His Moham-medan subjects opposed every letter of the Euro-pean proposals. At this critical point the Libei-alParty of England was overthrown and the Con-servative placed in power. The policy of the latterparty toward Turkey had always been aggressive, andmany hopes were built upon its being true to its tradi-. Signor A. Pansa, Italy. Mons. Nelidoff, Russia. Mons. P. Cambon, Baron Calice, Prince Radolin, Sir Philip Ciirrie, France. Auslro Hungary. Germany. liritain. THE AMBASSADORS OK iHE GREAT POWERS AT CONSTANTINOPLE, 384 THE TURK AND THE LAND OF HAIG. tions. Even the Sultan became alarmed at the acces-sion of the new party and felt that he was at least in aposition where he could no longer trifle with thedemands of Europe. He straightway promised toeffect the reforms, demanding, however, an extensionof time. This apparent concession to foreign pressuregreatly incensed the Turks, whose sense of nationaldignity was wounded, and they threatened the Sultanwith a Moslem insurrection. Particularly the YoungTurkey Party were very active in their expressions ofhostility against the existing administration ; for theyhad come to the conviction that it was not the Chris-tians alone who suffered
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