Mustafa Hayri's sealed memoirs stating that the Ministry of Finance wrote a letter to the government about putting all the farms up for auction, that he went to the governor's office and read this letter, that the auctions of the farms were requested to be completed within 5 days and the results reported, but that this was not a 5-day job, that it was thought that Istanbul wanted to sell them for a low price, and that it was not stated what the farm proceeds would be.