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‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [‎24r] (52/260)

The record is made up of 1 volume (126 folios). It was created in 1923-1924. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Article 51.
The amount of the share in the annual charges of the Ottoman
Public Debt for which each State concerned is liable in consequence
of the distribution provided for by Article 50 shall be determined as
follows :—
(1.) As regards the distribution provided for by Article 50 (1), in
the first place the share of the islands referred to in
Articles 12 and 15 and of the territories detached from
the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan wars, taken
together, shall be fixed. The amount of this share shall
bear the same proportion to the total sum of the
annuities to be distributed in accordance with Article (50) 1
as the average total revenue of the above-mentioned
islands and territories, taken as a whole, bore to the
average total revenue of the Ottoman Empire in the
financial years 1910-1911 and 1911-1912, including the
proceeds of the customs surtaxes established in 1907.
The amount thus determined shall then be distributed
among the States to which the territories referred to in the
preceding paragraph have been attributed, and the share
for which each of these States will thus be made liable shall
bear the same proportion to the total amount so distributed
as the average total revenue of the territory attributed to
each State bore in the financial years 1910-11 and 1911-12
to the average total revenue of the territories detached
from the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan Wars and the
islands referred to in Articles 12 and 15. In calculating
the revenues referred to in this paragraph, customs
revenues shall be excluded.
(2.) As regards the territories detached from the Ottoman Empire
under the present Treaty (including the territory referred
to in the last paragraph of Article 46), the amount of the
share of each State concerned shall bear the same propor
tion to the total sum of the annuities to be distributed in
accordance with Article 50 (2) as the average total revenue
of the detached territory (including the proceeds of the
Customs surtax established in 1907) for the financial years
1910-11 and 1911-12 bore to the average total revenue
of the Ottoman Empire, excluding the territories and
islands referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article.
Article 52.
The advances referred to in Part (B) of the Table annexed to the
present Section shall be distributed between Turkey and the other
States referred to in Article 46 under the following conditions :—
(1.) As regards the advances referred to in the Table which
existed on the 17th October, 1912, the capital amount, if

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A printed copy of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 and formally ended the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and other nations (including Great Britain) that had begun at the onset of the First World War. The volume was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, 1923 (Treaty Series No. 16 (1923). Cmd. 1929). The treaty is printed in the French original and English translation.

The treaty is divided into seventeen sections (numbered I-XVII): I. Treaty of Peace; II. Straits Convention; III. Convention respecting the Thracian frontier; IV. Convention respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction; V. Commercial Convention; VI. Convention concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed at Lausanne January 30, 1923; VII. Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne 23 January 1923; VIII. Declaration relating to the Amnesty; IX. Declaration relating to Muslim properties in Greece; X. Declaration relating to sanitary matters in Turkey; XI. Declaration relating to the administration of justice in Turkey; XII. Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire; XIII. Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions and instruments signed at Lausanne; XIV. Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces; XV. Protocol relating to the Karagatch [Karaağaç] territory and the Islands of Imbros [Gökçeada] and Tenedos [Bozcaada]; XVI. Protocol relating to the Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the principal Allied Powers and Greece on August 10, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same Powers relating to Thrace; XVII. Protocol relating to signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State.

The volume also includes copies of correspondence relating to the treaty, including letters exchanged between the High Commissioner to Constantinople, Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne on behalf of the British Government, and the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Mustafa İsmet İnönü]. A map of those parts of southeastern Europe affected by the treaty is also enclosed in the volume (f 126).

The volume is accompanied by a loose folio (f 128), entitled ‘NOTE ON THE TREATY OF PEACE (TURKEY) BILL, 1924.’, originally presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament. The note was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, in 1924.

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1 volume (126 folios)
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The volume’s contents are listed at the front of the volume (ff 2-3), and refer to the volume’s original pagination system.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [‎24r] (52/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492368.0x000035> [accessed 6 April 2025]

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