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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.’ [92r] (188/260)
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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177
Article 5.
Subject to the provisions of Articles 9 and 10 of the present Con
vention, the rights of property and monetary assets of Greeks in
Turkey or Moslems in Greece shall not be prejudiced in consequence
of the exchange to be carried out under the present Convention.
Article G.
No obstacle may be placed for any reason whatever in the way
of the departure of a person belonging to the populations which are to
be exchanged. In the event of an emigrant having received a definite
sentence of imprisonment, or a sentence which is not yet definitive,
or of his being the object of criminal proceedings, he shall be handed
over by the authorities of the prosecuting country to the authorities
of the country whither he is going, in order that he may serve Ins
sentence or be brought to trial.
Article 7.
The emigrants will lose the nationality of the country which thej
are leaving, and will acquire the nationality of the country of heir
destination, upon their arrival in the territory of the attei loun rj.
Such emigrants as have already left one or other of the two
countries and have not yet acquired their new nationality, sha
acquire that nationality on the date of the signature of the present
Convention.
Article 8.
Emigrants shall be free to take away with them or to arrange for
(he transport of their movable property of every kind, without being
liable on this account to the payment of any export or import duty
or any other tax. r
Similarly, the members of each community (including the per
sonnel of mosques, tekkes, meddresses, churches, convents, sdmote.
hospitals, societies, associations and juridical persons oro her
foundations of any nature whatever) which is to leave *e ternto \
of one of the Contracting States under the present Convention, sha
have the right to take away freely or to arrange for the transport of
the movable property belonging to their comnnuiities.
The fullest facilities for transport shall be provided by the
authorities of the two countries, upon the recommendation of t le
Mixed Commission provided for in Article 11. ,
• Emiurants who may not be able to take away all or part of hen
movable^ property can leave it behind. In that event, the local
authorities shall be required to draw up, the emigrant in ques ion
beinv given an opportunity to be heard, an inventoiy and valuation
of’ the nropertv left by him. ProcU-verbaux containing the inven-
torv and tto valuation of the movable property left by the emigrant
sh 'ill be drawn up in four copies, one of which shall be kept by the
S authorities,’the second transmitted to the ^ Co—on
• -i i Article 11 to serve as the basis toi the liquidation
provided for by Article !), the third shall be handed to «>e‘iovenn
nient of the country to which the emigrant is going, and the fourth
to the emigrant himself.
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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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