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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.’ [‎30r] (64/260)

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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The claims which Turkey has against Germany,
Bulgaria and Hungary, are also transferred to the
Contracting Powers.
Austria,
aforesaid
Article 68 .
The Turkish Government, in agreement with the other
Contracting Powers, hereby releases the German Government from
the obligation incurred by it during the war to accept Turkis
Government currency notes at a specified rate of exchange m pay
ment for goods to be exported to Turkey from Germany after tha
war.
PART III.
ECONOMIC CLAUSES.
Article 64.
In this part, the expression “Allied Powers” means the
Contracting Powers other than Tuikey. . .
The term “Allied nationals” includes physical persons,
companies and associations of the Contracting Powers other than
Turkey, or of a State or territory under the protection of one of the
^The'provisions of this Part relating to “ Allied Nationals ” shall
benefit persons who without having the nationality of one of the-
Allied Powers, have, in consequence of the protection which the\
in fact enjoyed at the hands of these Powers received from the
Ottoman authorities the same treatment as Allied nationals and
have, on this account, been prejudiced.
SECTION I.
Property, PiIGHTS and Interests.
Article 65.
Property rights and interests which still exist and can be
identified in territories remaining Turkish at the date of the com.ng
into force of the present Treaty, and which belong to pe^on 8 w ho
on the ‘29th October, 1914, were Allied nationals, shall be
immediately restored to the owners in their existing state.
Reciprocally, property, rights and interests which sHUexis
and can be identified in territories “Tfll? or in
protectorate of the Allied Powers on the 29th October, WH. or in
territories detached from the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan
wars and subject to-day to the sovereignty of any such Power and
which belong to Turkish nationals, shall be immediatel.r restored
to the owners in their existing state. The same P™™ 10 " s
apply to property, rights and interests which belong to Turkish
nationals in territories detached from the Ottoman Empire under
the present Treaty, and which may have been subjected to b'juida-
tion or any other exceptional measure whatever on the pait ot the
authorities of the Allied Powers.

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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.’ [‎30r] (64/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492368.0x000041> [accessed 6 April 2025]

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