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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.’ [17r] (38/260)
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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SECTION II.
Nationality.
Article 30.
Turkish subjects habitually resident in territory which in
accordance with the provisions of the present Treaty is detached
from Turkey will become ipso facto, in the conditions laid down by
the local law, nationals of the State to which such territory is
transferred.
Article 31.
Persons over eighteen years of age, losing their Turkish
nationality and obtaining ipso facto a new nationality under Article
30, shall be entitled within a period of two years from the coming
into force of the present Treaty to opt for Turkish nationality.
Article 32.
Persons over eighteen years of age, habitually resident in terri
tory detached from Turkey in accordance with the present Treaty,,
and differing in race from the majority of the population of such
territory shall, within two years from the coming into force of the
present Treaty, be entitled^ opt for the nationality of one of the
States in which the majority of the population is of the same race
as the person exercising the right to opt, subject to the consent of
that State.
Article 33.
Persons who have exercised the right to opt in accordance with
the provisions of Articles 31 and 32 must, within the succeeding
twelve months, transfer their place of residence to the State for
which they have opted.
They will be entitled to retain their immovable property in the
territory of the other State where they had their place of residence
before exercising their right to opt.
They may carry with them their movable property of every
description. No export or import duties may be imposed upon them
in connection with the removal of such property.
Article 34.
Subject to any agreements which it may be necessary to con
clude between the Governments exercising authority in the countries
detached from Turkey and the Governments of the countries where
the persons concerned are resident, Turkish nationals of over
eighteen years of age who are natives of a territory detached from
Turkey under the present Treaty, and who on its coming into
force are habitually resident abroad, may opt for the nationality of
the territory of which they are natives, if they belong by race to
the majority of the population of that territory, and subject to the
consent of the Government exercising authority therein. This
right of option must be exercised within two years from the coming
into force of the present Treaty.
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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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