Turkey Is Now Aggressive.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 14, 1912:
Greek and Bulgarian Residents Forced to Pay Taxes on Leaving.
    CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 13.— Whether for the purpose of provoking war or showing the Balkan allies that Turkey cannot be intimidated, the Government is acting with an aggressiveness calculated to bring hostilities.
    The embargo on Greek ships, the detention of Servian ammunition, and the seizure of Bulgarian railway cars, all constitute belligerent acts.
    Greek and Bulgarian Nationals in Constantinople, numbering a thousand or more, have been subjected to treatment designed to irritate those nations. Financial considerations figure largely in the attitude of the Turkish Government, and practically all of the hundreds of Greeks, who are returning to Athens, are compelled to pay full taxes to the end of the year before they are permitted to embark. Even the crews of Greek ships, which have been seized, have been haled before the prefects and made to pay a year's tuxes, as if they were Turkish subjects. Many Greeks have been arrested on the charge of being deserting reservists, and they can obtain their release only by paying the military exemption tax.
    Turkey's action, however, is less arbitrary than would seem, because many or the Greeks hold both Hellenic and Turkish passports to obtain the advantages of both nationalities; and they now have to shoulder the responsibilities of both.
    The Government is determined to expel all Bulgarian and Greek subjects as soon as war is declared, and these will be transported by some of the steamers which have been detained for that purpose. Trouble was expected over the seizures, as most of the cargoes are foreign owned, but it is announced that the Porte intends to buy the cargoes.
    The Government is requisitioning the horses owned by all foreign residents except the diplomatic representatives. The various Embassies have protested, and have notified the Porte that compensation will be claimed.
    Several Turkish women are going to the front to attend the wounded. Thus this will be the beginning of a new era for the sex.
    The Porte will reply to the collective note of the powers to-morrow.
    A consular telegram reports the killing of twelve Bulgarians at Kuprili, Macedonia, by Turkish soldiers. Massacres in Macedonia will be an inevitable feature of the war, but it is asserted here that Turks will not begin them.