Note 16 — Chapter II · BACKWARD TURKEY INVITES ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION

Quoted in The Near East, October 6, 1916, pp. 545–546. For an elaboration of the views of Sir William Willcocks see the following of his books and articles: The Recreation of Chaldea (Cairo, 1903); The Irrigation of Mesopotamia (London, 1905, and Constantinople, 1911); “Mesopotamia, Past, Present and Future,” in the Geographical Journal, January, 1910, pp. 1–18. For further works on the economic resources of Turkey-in-Asia consult, also, the following: K. H. Müller, Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Bagdadbahn (Hamburg, 1917); L. Blanckenhorn, Syrien und die deutsche Arbeit (Weimar, 1916); L. Schulmann, Zur türkischen Agrarfrage (Weimar, 1916); A. Ruppin, Syrien als Wirtschaftsgebiet (Berlin, 1917).