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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.’ [‎64r] (132/260)

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 same rule shall apply to merchant ships having a doctor on
hoard and passing straight through the Straits without calling at a
port or breaking bulk.
Merchant ships not having a doctor on board shall be obliged to
comply with the international sanitary regulations before entering
the Straits, even if they are not to call at a port therein.
Warships and merchant vessels calling at one of the ports in the
Straits shall be subject in that port to the international sanitary
regulations applicable in the port in question.
Article 3.
With a view to maintaining the Straits free from any obstacle to
free passage and navigation, the provisions contained in Articles 4
to 9 will be applied to the waters and shores thereof as well as to the
islands situated therein, or in the vicinity.
Article 4.
The zones and islands indicated below shall be demilitarised:
1. Both shores of the Straits of the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus over the extent of the zones delimited below (see the
attached map)* :
Dardanelles:
On the north-west, the Gallipoli Peninsula and the area south
east of a line traced from a point on the Gulf of Xeros 4 kilometres
north-east of Bakla-Burnu, reaching the Sea of Marmora at Kumbaghi
and passing south of Kavak (this village excluded);
On the south-east, the area included between the coast and a line
20 kilometres from the coast, starting from Cape Eski-Stamboul
opposite Tenedos and reaching the Sea of Marmora at a point on the
coast immediately north of Karabigha.
Bosphorus (without prejudice to the special provisions relating to
Constantinople contained in Article 8):
On the east, the area extending up to a line 15 kilometres from
the eastern shore of the Bosphorus ;
On the west, the area up to a line 15 kilometres from the western
shore of the Bosphorus.
2. All the islands in the Sea of Marmora, with the exception of
the island of Emir Ali Adasi.
3. In the iEgean Sea, the islands of Samothrace, Lemnos, Imbros,
Tenedos and Babbit Islands.
Article 5.
A Commission composed of four representatives appointed
respectively by the Governments of France, Great Britain, Italy and
Turkey shall meet within 15 days of the coming into force of the
present Convention to determine on the spot the boundaries of the
zone laid down in Article 4 (1).
The Governments represented on that Commission will pay the
salaries of their respective representatives.
* See combined map.

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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.’ [‎64r] (132/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492368.0x000085> [accessed 30 December 2024]

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