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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.’ [‎40r] (84/260)

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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1st August, 1914, in accordance with the law of each of the con
tracting countries, shall be re-established or restored as from the
coming into force of the present Treaty in the territories of the
High Contracting Parties in favour of the persons entitled to the
benefit of them at the moment when the state of war commenced,
or of their legal representatives. Equally, rights which, but for the
war. could have been acquired during the war. by means of an
application legally made for the protection of industrial property
or of the publication of a literary or artistic work, shall be
recognised and established in favour of those persons who would
have been entitled thereto, from the coming into force of the present
Treaty.
Without prejudice to the rights which are required to be restored
in accordance with the above provision, all acts (including the grant
of licences) done by virtue of the special measures taken during
the war by a legislative, executive or administrative authority of
an Allied Power in regard to the rights of Turkish nationals in
respect of industrial, literary or artistic property, shall remain in
force and continue to have their full effect. This provision applies
mutatis mutandis to corresponding measures taken by Turkish
authorities in regard to the rights of the nationals of any Allied
Power.
Article 87.
A minimum of one year from the coming into force of the present
Treaty shall be granted, without surtax or penalty of any kind, to
Turkish nationals in the territory of each of the other Contracting
Powers, and to the nationals of these Powers in Turkey, within
which they may accomplish any act, fulfil any formality, pay any
fees, and generally satisfy any obligation prescribed by the laws
and regulations of the respective States for preserving or obtaining
or opposing the grant of rights to industrial property which had
already been acquired on the 1st August, 1914, or which, but for
the war, might have been acquired since that date by means of an
application made before or during the war.
Rights to industrial property which have lapsed by reason of any
failure to accomplish any act, fulfil any formality, or pay any fees
shall be revived, but subject, in the case of patents and designs, to
the adoption of such measures as each Power may deem reasonably
necessary for the protection of the rights of third parties who have
exploited or made use of patents or designs since they had lapsed.
The period from the 1st August, 1914, until the coming into
force of the present Treaty shall be excluded in calculating the
time within which a patent has to be exploited or a trade-mark or
design used, and it is further agreed that no patent, trade-mark
or design in force on the 1st August, 1914, shall be subject to
revocation or cancellation by reason only of the failure to exploit
such patent or use such trade-mark or design, for two years after
■the coming into force of the present Treaty.

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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.’ [‎40r] (84/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492368.0x000055> [accessed 29 June 2026]

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