The political situation of Turkey is undoubtedly the most complıcated ın the world to-day. To begin with, it contains a full measure of internal problems of the usual sort but of unusual acuteness. It is further seriously conditioned by the actions and interactions of three sets of rival interests: the group of distinct nationalities within the country, unassimilated after centuries; the cluster of small but active neighboring states, formerly a part of Turkey, and not yet satisfied with the terms and bounds of separation; and the family of the distant great nations, seeking strenuously to apportion and regulate the world. In the presence of these numerous forces, the Ottoman Empire, once during a brief period of splendor the strongest state in the Mediterranean sphere of civilization, has for some generations hung balanced on the verge of destruction. Two years ago a new spirit seemed to be breathed into it, a new life to be begun whose precarious thread perhaps furnishes the only genuine hope for the permanence of the nation. This new spirit and life is striving to find a sure embodiment and an effective means of expression in and through the Turkish Parliament.