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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.’ [‎77r] (158/260)

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.
Commercial, industrial or financial corporations, including trans
port and insurance corporations which are incorporated in accordance
with the law of one of the other contracting countries, and which, in
accordance with the provisions of Article 5, establish themselves in
Turkey or carry on their affairs there, shall not be subjected to any
impost, tax or charge, of any kind or under any description whatso
ever, to which corporations of the same kind incorporated under
Turkish law are not subjected.
The same provisions apply to associated companies, branches,
agencies and other representatives of firms or companies of the said
countries which, in accordance with the provisions of Article o, are
established or carry on their affairs in Turkey, it being understood
that, when the control of these firms or companies is outside Turkey,
the said associated companies, branches, agencies and representatives
will only be taxed in proportion to the amount of the capital actually
employed in Turkey, or in respect of the profits and revenues which
they have actually earned there, these profits and revenues being
used to determine the amount of capital employed if it is impossible
to verify that capital.
Article 10.
If the Turkish Government establishes any exemptions from
fiscal charges, of any kind or under any description whatsoever, these
exemptions will be granted to the nationals or companies established
in Turkey of the other contracting countries in the same way as to
Turkish nationals or to companies established under Turkish law.
This provision cannot be used to support a claim to the benefit of
exemptions from charges granted to undertakings established by the
State or to concessionnaires of a public utility service.
Article 11.
In respect of all matters referred to in Articles 8 to 10, provincial
or local charges, imposts or taxes, leviable in lurkey on the nationals
of the other contracting countries shall not be other or higher than
those levied on Turkish nationals.
Article 12.
No forced loan or capital levy shall be imposed in Turkey, even
in case of war, on nationals of other contracting countries established
in Turkey or carrying on their affairs therein, or on their property,
rights and interests situated in Turkish territory, or on corporations,
associated companies, branches or agencies constituted under the
law of one of the said countries and established in Turkey or carrying
on their affairs therein.
Article 13.
The Capitulations having been abolished, Turkey will not grant
to the nationals of foreign countries any treatment more favourable
than that accorded to her own nationals, and will apply to her
nationals and to the nationals of the other Contracting 1 artres the
principle of equality of treatment as regards the matters referred to
in this Section.

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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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‘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.’ [‎77r] (158/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492368.0x00009f> [accessed 20 April 2024]

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