A bill has been introduced into the National Assembly in Angora aiming to prevent foreign subjects from engaging in a number of occupations in Turkey. No alien will be permitted to follow any occupation, trade, or craft in any village or small town. In the cities and larger towns aliens will not be allowed to be boot and shoe traders, printers, doll-makers, commission agents to### Government monopoly articles like tobacco, alcohol, sugar, salt, petroleum, or matches; to be interpreters for tourists, employees in public institutions like tramways, electricity works, etc., porters or transport workers, drivers, manual labourers, gardeners, night watchmen, waiters, veterinary surgeons or chemists.
Those aliens who are engaged in these occupations will be given a period of three months in which to settle their affairs, and after that period they will no longer be allowed under the new law to engage in the prohibited occupations.
The Turkish Ministry of Commerce began to enforce in 1926 a law which was adopted by the National assembly at Angora towards the end of 1925, making it compulsory to dismiss all non-Moslems and replace them by Moslems. Thousands of Jews, Armenians and Greeks were thrown out of employment as a result of this measure.
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