![‘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.’ [‎31r] (66/260)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x00028f/Mss Eur F112_280_2_0066.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘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.’ [‎31r] (66/260)")
‘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.’ [31r] (66/260)
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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All property, rights and interests situated in territory detached
from the Ottoman Empire under the present Treaty, which, after
havine been subjected by the Ottoman Government to an excep-
tnaTwar measure, are now in the hands of the Contracting Power
exercising authority over the said territory, and which can be
identified! shall be restored to their legitimate owners, in their
existin' 7, state. The same provision shall apply to immovable
“opertv which mav have been liquidated by the Contracting Power
exercising authority over the said territory All other claims
between individuals shall be submitted to the competent local
COm \li disputes relating to the identity or the restitution of
property to which a claim is made shall be submitted to the Mixed
Arbitral Tribunal provided for in Section V of this Pait.
Article 66.
In order to give effect to the provisions of the first and second
paragraphs of Article 65 the High Contracting Parties will, by the
most^rapid procedure, restore the owners to the possession of their
nropertv rights and interests free from any burdens or
encumbrances with which such property, rights and interests may
have been charged without the consent of the said owners. It will
be the duty of the Government of the Power effecting the restitution
to provide for the compensation of third parties who may have
acquired the property directly or indirectly from the said Govern
ment and who may be injured by this restitution Disputes which
may arise in connection with such compensation shall be dealt w
h> In another cases it will be open to any third parties who may
be injured to take action against whoever is responsible, in orde
and 1 interests shall be immediately cancelled and stayed when
liquidation has not yet been completed. Owners who make claims
shall be satisfied bv the immediate res itution of then pro^rty,
rights and interests as soon as these shall have been lde ^ e ^
When at the date of the signature of the present Treaty the
property rights and interests the restitution of which is provided
For te Article 65 have been liquidated by the authorities of one
of the High Contracting Parties, that Party shall be discharged
from the obligation to restore the said property, rights and interests
bv payment of the proceeds of the liquidation to the owner If, on
application being made bv the owner, the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal
provided for by Section V finds that the liquidation was not
effected in such conditions as to ensure the realisation of a fair
price it will have the power, in default of agreement between the
parties to order the addition to the proceeds of the liquidation of
such amount as it shall consider equitable. The said property,
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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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