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Adnan Harun Yahya

Syrian border:

The border with Syria should be pushed further south and southeast.

Best efforts will be made to correct this border. The border should start at Re'si
ibn Hayr, continue along Harm, Al-Muslimiyah, Maskanah and Euphrates
road, Deir Ez-Zor and finally end at Mosul for the south border.

The desired Syrian border would be connected to Mosul, Sulaymaniyah
and Kirkuk and would complete the southern border of the National Pact.

This short but definitive instruction was essentially based on the National
Pact, and demanded that certain land issues that remained unsolved with the

Armistice of Mudros be solved (the Straits, Istanbul and Eastern Thrace). 357

Mustafa Kemal made it clear on many occasions that he considered Mo-
sul as a Turkish land and that he wouldn't accept the British mandate. For

instance, on December 25, 1922, he explained his clear stance on Mosul dur-
ing an interview he gave to Paul Herriot of Le Journal at Çankaya:

Arriving at Ankara on December 27, 1919, Mustafa Kemal
counted Mosul, Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah within the Na-
tional Borders in the speech he gave the next day.