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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.’ [‎100r] (204/260)

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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shall be disturbed or molested in Turkey and reciprocally in Greece,
under any pretext whatsoever, on account of any military or political
action taken by him, or any assistance of any kind given by him to a
foreign Power signatory of the Treaty of Peace signed this day, or to
the nationals of such Power, between the 1st August, 1914, and the
20th November, 1922.
XL
Similarly no inhabitant of the territories detached from Turkey
under the said Treaty of Peace shall be disturbed or molested either
on account of his political or military attitude against or in favour of
Turkey during the period from the 1st August, 1914, to the 20th
November, 1922, or of the determination of his nationality under the
said Treaty.
III.
Pull and complete amnesty shall be respectively granted by the-
Turkish Government and by the Greek Government for all crimes or
offences committed during the same period which were evidently
connected with the political events which have taken place during
that period.
LV.
Turkish nationals, and reciprocally nationals of the other Powers
signatory of the Treaty of Peace signed this day who may have been
arrested, prosecuted or sentenced by the authorities of the said Powers
or by the Turkish authorities respectively, for reasons of a political
or military nature previous to the 20th November, 1922, on territory
which remains Turkish in accordance with the said Treaty of Peace,
shall benefit from the amnesty, and, if they are detained, shall be
handed over to the authorities of the States of which they are the
nationals. This stipulation is similarly applicable to Turkish
nationals arrested, prosecuted or sentenced by the authorities of the
Powers who have occupied a portion of the above-mentioned territory
even for a transgression of the ordinary law committed before that
date, and even if they have been removed from Turkey, excepting
those who have committed, against a person belonging to the armies
of occupation, an assault which has entailed death or a grievous
wound.
V.
All sentences pronounced for the above reasons shall be annulled,
and any proceedings already instituted shall be stayed.
. JSLS . VI.
The Turkish Government, sharing the desire for general pacifica
tion with which all the Powers are animated, declare their intention not
to contest the measures carried out under the auspices of the Allied
Powers during the period between the 20th October, 1918, and the
20th November, 1922, with the object of re-establishing families
scattered owing to the war and of replacing legitimate proprietors in
possession of their goods.
However, this intention does not exclude the possibility of any
revision of the above-mentioned measures in the event of a request
to that effect being made by the interested parties. Claims respecting
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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.’ [‎100r] (204/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492369.0x000005> [accessed 28 June 2026]

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