![‘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.’ [‎101r] (206/260)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x00028f/Mss Eur F112_280_2_0206.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.’ [‎101r] (206/260)")
‘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.’ [101r] (206/260)
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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[10868] H 2
persons and ^oods shall be examined by a Commission composed of a
delegate of the Red Crescent and a delegate of the Red Cross. In
the event of a dispute, these delegates will choose an umpire; if they
are unable to agree as to such choice the umpire will be appointed
by the Council of the League of Nations.
YU.
The British, French, and Italian Governments, acknowledging the
importance of the measure of pacification which forms the subject of
Article 5 of the Agreement concluded on the 30th January, 1923,
between the Greek Government and the Turkish Government
relating to the return of interned civilians and to the exchange of
prisoners of war, declare that they are prepared to adopt, subject to
reciprocity on the part of the Turkish Government, the same
measures for the benefit of such Turkish prisoners of war and
interned civilians as may still be in their hands, with the exception
of those who may have committed crimes and offences against the
ordinary law since the 20th November, 1922.
Done at Lausanne, the 24th July,'1923.
Horace Rumbold.
Pelle.
Garroni.
G. C. Montagna.
K. Otchiai.
E. K. Yeniselos.
D. Caclamanos.
Const. Diamandy.
Const. Contzesco.
M. Ismet.
Dr. Riza Nour.
Has san.
(Translation.)
Protocol.
It is understood that, in spite of the terms of paragraph 1 of the
Amnesty Declaration, the Turkish Government reserves to itself the
right to prohibit sojourn in and access to Turkey to 150 persons
included in the category of persons referred to in the said paragraph.
Consequently, the Turkish Government will be entitled to expel from
its territory such of the persons in question as may be there at the
present time and to prohibit such as are abroad from returning, ihe
names of these persons shall be annexed to the Amnesty lioclama-
tion which, on the coming into force of the Treaty of Peace signed
this day, shall be promulgated by the said Government in order to
give effect, in so far as that Government is concerned, to the above-
mentioned declaration. It is further understood that, in the event of
the Turkish Government deciding, as it has expressed the intention,
that the said persons must liquidate their property and other goods
in Turkey, they shall be granted a period of nine months as from the
date of the above-mentioned proclamation to effect this liquidation
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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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