'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎26v] (32/112)

SECTION XII.
NATIONALITY.
Article 123.
Turkish subjects habitually resident in territory which in accordance with the
provisions of die present Treaty is detached from Turkey will become ipso facto, in the
conditions laid down by the local law, nationals of the State to which such territory is
transferred.
Article 124.
Persons over eighteen years of age losing their 1 urkish nationality and obtaining
ipso facto a new nationality under Article 123 shall be entitled within a period of one
year from the coming into force of the present Treaty to opt for l urkish nationality.
Article 125.
Persons over eighteen years of age habitually resident in territory detached from
Turkey in accordance with the present Treaty and differing in race from the majority of
the population of such territory shall within one year from the coming into force of the
present Treaty be entitled to opt for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, the Hedjaz,
Mesopotamia, Syria, Bulgaria or Turkey, if the majority of the population of the State
selected is of the same race as the person exercising the right to opt.
Article 126.
Persons who have exercised the right to opt in accordance with the provisions of
Articles 124 or 125 must within the succeeding twelve months transfer their place of
residence to the State for which they have opted.
They will be entitled to retain their immovable property in the territory of the other
State where they had their place of residence before exercising their right to opt.
They may carry with them their movable property of every description. No export
or import duties may be imposed upon them in connection with the removal of such
property.
Article 127.
The High Contracting Parties undertake to put no hindrance in the way of the
exercise of the right which the persons concerned have under the present Treaty, or under
the Treaties of Peace concluded with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria or Hungary, or under
any treaty concluded by the Allied Powers, or any of them, with Russia, or between any
of the Allied Powers themselves, to choose any other nationality which may be open to
them.
In particular, Turkey undertakes to facilitate by every means in her power the
voluntary emigration of persons desiring to avail themselves of the right to opt provided
by Article 125, and to carry out any measures which may be prescribed with this object
by the (duncil of the League of Nations.
Article 128.
I urkey undertakes to recognise any new nationality which has been or may be
acquired by her nationals under the laws of the Allied Powers or new States and in
accordance with the decisions of the competent authorities of these Powers pursuant to
naturalisation laws or under Treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as having, in
consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in all respects severed their
allegiance to their country of origm.
In particular, persons who before the coming into force of the present Treaty have
acquired the nationality of one of the Allied Powers in accordance with the law of such
ower shall be recognised by the L urkish Government as nationals of such Power and as
Ilia ing lost their I urkish nationality, notwithstanding any provisions of Turkish law
con ^ sca ^ on °f property or other penalty provided bv Turkish law
sli,ill be incurred on account of the acquisition of any such nationality.