Diran Bey reports that the editor of “L’Indépendance” refused to publish the fourth rectification, nonetheless he promises to publish articles by the Ottoman government attributed to correspondents in Istanbul. A payment of 2500fr to do so seems insufficient for the newspaper.
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Consulted online at Ottoman Diplomats: Letters From the Imperial Legation in Brussels (1849–1914) (2014 Edition), Centre for Political History (PoHis), University of Antwerp, <http://dighum.uantwerpen.be/ottomandiplomats/>.