![‘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.’ [‎13r] (30/260)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x00028f/Mss Eur F112_280_2_0030.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.’ [‎13r] (30/260)")
‘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.’ [13r] (30/260)
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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Article 9.
The various States interested undertake to safeguard the
trigonometrical points, signals, posts or frontier marks erected by
the Commission.
Article 10.
The pillars will be placed so as to be intervisible. They will
be numbered, and their position and their number will be noted
on a cartographic document.
Article 11.
The protocols defining the boundary and the maps and docu
ments attached thereto will be made out in triplicate, of which two
copies will be forwarded to the Governments of the limitrophe
States, and the third to the Government of the French Republic,
which will deliver authentic copies to the Powers who sign the
present Treaty.
Article 12.
The decision taken on the 18th February, 1914, by the
Conference of London, in virtue of Articles 5 of the Treaty of
London of the 17th-30th May, 1918, and 15 of the Treaty of
Athens of the lst-14th November, 1913, which decision was com
municated to the Greek Government on the 13th February, 1914,
regarding the sovereignty of Greece over the islands of the Eastern
Mediterranean, other than the islands of Imbros, Tenedos and
Rabbit Islands, particularly the islands of Lemnos, Samothrace,
Mytilene, Chios, Samos and Nikaria, is confirmed, subject to the
provisions of the present Treaty respecting the islands placed under
the sovereignty of Italy which form the subject of Article 15.
Except where a provision to the contrary is contained in the
present Treaty, the islands situated at less than three miles from
the Asiatic coast remain under Turkish sovereignty.
Article 13.
With a view to ensuring the maintenance of peace, the Greek
Government undertakes to observe the following restrictions in the
islands of Mytilene, Chios, Samos and Nikaria :—
(1.) No naval base and no fortification will be established in
the said islands.
(2.) Greek military aircraft will be forbidden to fly over the
territory of the Anatolian coast. Reciprocally, the
Turkish Government will forbid their military aircraft 1o
fly over the said islands.
(3.) The Greek military forces in the said islands will be
limited to the normal contingent called up for military
service, which can be trained on the spot, as well as to
a force of gendarmerie and police in proportion to the
force of gendarmerie and police existing in the whole
of the Greek territory.
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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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