![‘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.’ [‎65r] (134/260)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x00028f/Mss Eur F112_280_2_0134.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.’ [‎65r] (134/260)")
‘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.’ [65r] (134/260)
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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128
Any general expenses incurred by the Commission shall be borne
in equal shares by the Powers represented thereon.
Article 6.
Subject to the provisions ot Article 8 concerning Constantinople,
there shall exist, in the demilitarised zones and islands, no fortifi
cations, no permanent artillery organisation, no submarine engines of
war other than submarine vessels, no military aerial organisation,
and no naval base.
No armed forces shall be stationed in the demilitarised zones and
islands except the police and gendarmerie forces necessary for the
maintenance of order; the armament of such forces will be composed
only of revolvers, swords, rifles and four Lewis guns per hundred
men, and will exclude any artillery.
In the territorial waters of the demilitarised zones and islands,
there shall exist no submarine engines of war other than submarine
vessels.
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs Turkey will retain the
right to transport her armed forces through the demilitarised zones
and islands of Turkish territory, as well as through their territorial
waters, where the Turkish fleet will have the right to anchor.
Moreover, in so far as the Straits are concerned, the Turkish
Government shall have the right to observe by means of aeroplanes
or balloons both the surface and the bottom of the sea. Turkish
aeroplanes will always be able to fly over the waters of the Straits
and the demilitarised zones of Turkish territory, and will have full
freedom to alight therein, either on land or on sea.
In the demilitarised zones and islands and in their territorial
waters, Turkey and Greece shall similarly be entitled to effect such
movements of personnel as are rendered necessary for the instruction
outside these zones and islands of the men recruited therein.
Turkey and Greece shall have the right to organise in the said
zones and islands in their respective territories any system of observa
tion and communication, both telegraphic, telephonic and visual.
Greece shall be entitled to send her fleet into the territorial waters of
the demilitarised Greek islands, but may not use these waters as a
base of operations against Turkey nor for any military or naval
concentration for this purpose.
Article 7.
No submarine engines of war other than submarine vessels shall
be installed in the waters of the Sea of Marmora.
The Turkish Government shall not instal any permanent battery
or torpedo tubes, capable of interfering with the passage ot the
Straits, in the coastal zone of the European shore ot the Sea of
Marmora or in the coastal zone on the Anatolian shore situated to
the east of the demilitarised zone ot the Bosphorus as tar as 1 )ai ije.
Article 8.
•*— ^
At Constantinople, including lor this purpose Stamboul, l eia >
Galata, Scutari, as well as Princes’ Islands, and in the immediate
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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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