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While recent events have certainly caused a ruckus, the Ottoman Empire shall not allow this tantrum thrown up by Prussia – with the intent of shifting attention from its war-mongering – to distract from the important issue at hand. Whether the Treaty of Constantinople is controversial or not is of no consequence, for that is nothing but words. What is more worrying is the reality on the ground. 

Here we have Prussia, a nation who gained the most due to the Treaty of Constantinople, both territorially and politically, and upon realising that it can no longer continue pursuing its interests without breaking the treaty, it has chosen to disregard it completely and play the role of the innocent child who had no hand in creating it. It is clear that Prussia of all the signatories has proven itself to be the most untrustworthy, not because it revealed the treaty, but because it was so quick to disregard it once it was of no benefit to it. Why was it of no benefit to it? Because it completely prevents the one things which allows Prussia to thrive: war.

We assure the Empire of Brazil that war in South America is beyond the realms of the ridiculous. The Ottoman Empire has no territorial interests in South America and the logistical organisation required to fight a war so far away is beyond our capabilities and beyond the capabilities of most of the signatories. While it is of little consequence, that particular sphere of influence was intended to be under Brazil’s control as we believed it to be a peace-keeping nation which would adjudicate justly as was the responsibility of all those with a sphere of influence. This proposal was in fact shot down by Prussia and Russia who did not wish to see the spheres of influence belong to any non-signatories. 

We repeat, the crimes of Prussia and the Netherlands against the people of Belgium shall not go unpunished. If there is no compliance to the ultimatum offered then both the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands can expect a full blockade until such a time when they withdraw and return all stolen territories to Belgium.

[b]His Highness, Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha, Foreign Minister of the Ottoman Empire[/b]