'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎50v] (80/112)

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PART XI.
PORTS. WATERWAYS AND RAILWAYS.
SECTION I
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Article 32&.
Turkey undertakes to ^rant freedom of transit through her territories on the routes
most convenient for international transit, either by rail, navigable waterway or canal, to
persons, goods, vessels, carriages, waggons and mails coming from or going to the terri
tories of any of the Allied Powers, whether contiguous or not ; for this purpose the
crossin.'- of territorial waters shall be allowed. Such persons, goods, vessels, carriages,
wan-eons and mails shall not be subjected to any transit duty or to any undue delays or
restrictions and shall be entitled in Turkey to national treatment as regards charges,
facilities and all other matters. .
Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar duties.
All charges imposed on transport in transit shall be reasonable having regard to the
conditions of the traffic. No charge, facility or restriction shall depend directly or
indirectly on the ownership or the nationality of the ship or other means of transport on
which any part of the through iourney has been, or is to be, accomplished.
Article 329.
Turkey undertakes neither to impose nor to maintain any control over transmigration
traffic through her territories beyond measures necessary to ensure that passengers are
bond fide in transit ; nor to allow any shipping company or any other private body,
corporation or person interested in the traffic to take any part whatever in, or to exercise
any direct or indirect influence over, any administrative service that may be necessary for
this purpose.
Article 330.
Turkey undertakes to make no discrimination or preference, direct or indirect, in
the duties, charges and prohibitions relating to importations into or exportations from
her territories, or, subject to any special provisions in the present Treaty, in the charges
and conditions of transport of goods or persons entering or leaving her territories, based
on the frontier crossed, or on the kind, ownership or flag of the means of transport
(including aircraft) employed, or on the original or immediate place of departure of the
vessel, waggon or aircraft or other means of transport employed, or its ultimate or inter
mediate destination, or on the route of or places of trans-shipment on the journey, or on
whether any port through which the goods are imported or exported is a Turkish port or
a port belonging to any foreign country, or on whether the goods are imported or exported
by sea, by land or by air.
Turkey particular} undertakes not to establish against the ports and vessels of any
of the Allied Powers any surtax or any direct or indirect bounty for export or import by
Turkish ports or vessels, or by those of another Power, for example, by means of
combined tariffs. She further undertakes that persons or goods passing through a port
or using a vessel of any of the Allied Powers shall not be subjected to anv formality or
elay whatever to which such persons or goods would not be subjected if they passed
through a Turkish port or a port of any other Power, or used a Turkish vessel or a vessel
oi any other Power.
All necessary administrative and technical measures shall be taken to expedite as
muc as possible, the transmission of goods across the Turkish frontiers and to ensure
their forwarding and transport from such frontiers irrespective of whether such miods are
commg from or going to the territories of the Allied Powers or are in transit from or to
those territories under the same material conditions in such matters as rapidRv of carriage
and care en route as are enjoyed by other goods of the same kind earned'on Turkish
territory under similar conditions of transport. on lurfclsl1
carried out, and the^ust^T formalL^^ be P rom P tl y and regularly