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Halavah Khanum's petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Halavah Khanum, a citizen of the Ottoman Empire and wife of ʻAlikhan Bani Ardalani, a clerk in Iran's Department of Procurements in Karkuk who was killed by Ottoman bandits, asks for her husband's salary. The Ottoman Empire has not accepted her request, since her husband was an Iranian, and has referred it to the government of Iran.
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Daughters of Vakil al-Sifarah's complaint, 1919-1920
Documents relating the follow-up to the daughters of Vakil al-Sifarat's complaint about not receiving their share of inheritance, including: Farah al-Saltanah's call for justice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She writes that after her father's death, his financial documents were kept in two boxes sealed at the embassies of Britain and the Ottoman Empire, but they are now in the posession of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she wants the boxes opened. In another document, Sayf Allah Khan, the son of Amir Muqtadir Kirmanshahi, lodges a complaint against his wife, Farah al-Saltanah,...