Su un possibile concordato tra Impero ottomano e Santa Sede durante la prima guerra mondiale.

In order to eliminate any foreign interference in the internal affairs of Turkey, the Government pushed the Sublime Porte, in 1914, to abolish the regime of Capitulations and the French Protectorate over Catholics and to ask the new apostolic delegate in Constantinople to establish direct diplomatic relations with the Holy See and to sign a concordat. The Ottoman proposal, although taken into consideration for its possible positive effects, aroused in the Secretariat of State an attitude of cautious expectation both because the First World War, whose outcome was still uncertain, was in progress and because they did not want to further lacerate relations and hurt the sensibility not so much of the government as of the French population. The text analyzes the steps taken by the Turkish government, but above all by the Holy See. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]