![‘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.’ [‎61r] (126/260)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x00028f/Mss Eur F112_280_2_0126.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.’ [‎61r] (126/260)")
‘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.’ [61r] (126/260)
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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(c.) In Time of War, Turkey being a Belligerent.
Freedom of navigation for neutral vessels and neutral non-military
aircraft, if the vessel or aircraft in question does not assist the enemy,
particularly by carrying contraband, troops or enemy nationals.
Turkey will have the right to visit and search such vessels and air
craft, and for this purpose aircraft are to alight on the ground or on
the sea in such areas as are specified and prepared for this purpose
by Turkey. The rights of Turkey to apply to enemy vessels the
measures allowed by international law are not affected.
Turkey will have full power to take such measures as she may
consider necessary to prevent enemy vessels from using the Straits.
These measures, however, are not to be of such a nature as to prevent
the free passage of neutral vessels, and Turkey agrees to provide
such vessels with either the necessary instructions or pilots for the
above purpose.
2 .
Warships, including Fleet Auxiliaries, Troopships, Aircraft Carriers
and Military Aircraft.
(a) In Time of Peace..
Complete freedom of passage by day and by night under any
flag, without any formalities, or tax, or charge whatever, but subject
to the following restrictions as to the total force:
The maximum force which any one Power may send through
the Straits into the Black Sea is not to be greater than that of
the most powerful fleet of the littoral Powers of the Black Sea
existing in that sea at the time of passage ; but with the proviso
that the Powers reserve to themselves the right to send into the
Black Sea, at all times and under all circumstances, a force of not
more than three ships, of which no individual ship shall exceed
10,000 tons.
Turkey has no responsibility in regard to the number of war
vessels which pass through the Straits. fi 1P Straits
In order to enable the above rule to be observed, the Straits
Commission provided for in Article 10 will on the Is January and
the let July of each year, enquire of each Black Sea littoral
the number of each of the following classes of vessel whwh eurfi
Power possesses in the Black Sea : Batt!e-sh ps batde-ciu^m
aircraft carriers cruisers, destroyer's, submarines, or other types ot
vessels as well’as naval aircraft ; distingmshmg between th^slnp«
which are in active commission and the ship,
complements, the ships in reserve and the stops undergoing repairs
01 “traits Commission will then inform the Pojys con^rned
that the strongest naval force in the Black Sea compnses Battohips,
battle-cruisers, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyets, snhmMnw^
craft and unite of other types which may exist. 1 he Straps Commissio
will also immediately inform the Powers concerned when, owing to the
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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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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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