'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎30r] (39/112)

I he proportion of the various arms and services entering into the composition of these
special elements is laid down in fable If annexed to this Section.
Their quartering will be fixed as provided in Article 200.
Article 158.
In the formations referred to in Articles 156 and 157, the proportion of officers,
including the personnel of staffs and special services, shall not exceed one twentieth of
the total effectives with the colours, and that of non-commissioned officers shall not
exceed one twelfth of the total effectives with the colours.
Article 159.
Officers supplied by the various Allied or neutral Powers shall collaborate, under
the direction of the 1 urkish Government, in the command, the organisation and the
training ot the gendarmerie. These officers shall not be included in the strength
of gendarmerie officers authorised by Article 158, but their number shall not exceed
fifteen per cent, of that strength. Special agreements to be drawn up by the Inter-Allied
Commission mentioned in Article 200 shall fix the proportion of these officers according
to nationality, and shall determine the conditions of their participation in the various
missions assigned to them by this Article.
Article 160.
In any one territorial region all officers placed at the disposal of the Turkish
Government under the conditions laid down in Article 159 shall in principle be of the
same nationality.
Article 161.
In the zone of the Straits and islands referred to in Article 178, excluding the islands
of Lemnos, Imbros, Samothraee, Tenedos and Mitylene, the forces of gendarmerie, Greek
and Turkish, will be under the Inter-A Hied Command of the forces in occupation of
that zone.
Article 162.
All measures of mobilisation, or appertaining to mobilisation, or tending to an
increase of the strength or of the means of transport of any of the forces provided for
in this Chapter are forbidden.
The various formations, Staffs and administrative services shall not, ill any case,
include supplementary cadres.
Article 163.
Within the period fixed by Article 153, all existing forces of gendarmerie shall be
amalgamated with the legions provided for in Article 156.
Article 164.
The formation of any body of troops not provided for in this Section is forbidden.
The suppression of existing formations which are in excess of the authorised
strength of 50,000 men (not including the Sultan’s bodyguard) shall be effected
progressively from the date of the signature of the present Treaty, in such manner as to
be completed within six months at the latest after the coming into force of the Treaty,
in accordance with the provisions of Article 153.
The number of officers, or persons in the position of officers, in the War Ministry
and the Turkish General Staff, as well as in the administrations attached to them, shall,
within the same period, be reduced to the establishment considered by the Commission
referred to in Article 200 as strictly necessary for the good working of the general
services of the armed Turkish force, this establishment being included in the maximum
figure laid down in Article 158.
Chapter III.
Recruiting.
Article 165.
The Turkish armed force shall in future be constituted and recruited by voluntary
enlistment only.
Enlistment shall be open to all subjects of the Turkish State equally, without
distinction of race or religion.
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