‘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.’ [54r] (112/260)
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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other than that to which it is dedicated. If this land is situated on
the coast, the shore may not be employed by the concessionary
Government for any military, marine or commercial purpose of
whatever nature. The sites of graves and cemeteries which may no
longer be used for that purpose and which are not used for the
erection of memorials shall be returned to the Turkish or Greek
Government.
Article 132.
Any necessary legislative or administrative measures for the
grant to the British, French and Italian Governments respectively of
full, exclusive and perpetual use of the land referred to in Articles 128
to 130 shall be taken by the Turkish Government and Greek
Government respectively within six months of the date of the
notification to be made in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 130.
If any compulsory acquisition of the land is necessary, it will be
effected by and at the cost of the Turkish Government or the Greek
Government, as the case may be.
Article 133.
The British, French and Italian Governments may respectively
entrust to such organisations as each of them may deem fit the estab
lishment, arrangement and maintenance of the graves, cemeteries,
ossuaries and memorials of their nationals. These organisations
shall have no military character. They alone shall have the right to
undertake the exhumation or removal of bodies necessary for the
concentration of graves and establishment of cemeteries and
ossuaries, as well as the exhumation and removal of such bodies as
the Governments to whom the grant of land is made shall deem it
necessary to transfer to their own country.
Article 134.
The British, French and Italian Governments shall have the right
to entrust the maintenance of their graves, cemeteries, ossuaries and
memorials in Turkey to custodians appointed from among their own
nationals. These custodians shall be recognised by the Turkish
authorities and shall receive from them every assistance necessary
for the safeguard and protection of these graves, cemeteries, ossuanes
and memorials. The custodians shall have no military character,
but may be armed for their personal defence with a revolver or
automatic pistol.
Article 135,
The land referred to in Articles 128 to 131 shall not be subjected
by Turkey or the Turkish authorities, or by Greece'or the Greek
authorities, as the case may be, to any form of rent or taxation.
Representatives of the British, French or Italian Governments, as
well as persons desirous of visiting the graves, cemeteries, ossuaries
and memorials, shall at all times have free access thereto. I he
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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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