Treaty of Lausanne

 

<font size=+1>Treaty of Peace with Turkey Signed at Lausanne, July 24, 1923<br>  

From: <i>The Treaties of Peace 1919-1923, Vol. II</i> (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1924.)</font>

Go to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Turkey-Greece-Bulgaria_on_Treaty_of_Lausanne.png Map of the Treaty Area.]<br>  

Go to [[Map of the Mandate Areas of Arabia]]

 

(Compiled by Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin, Geographer of the Institute of Politics)  

With links to a related [http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/14/39/00027946.pdf Agreement respecting the Reciprocal Restitution of Interned Civilians and the Exchange of Prisoners of War,<br> signed at Lausanne, January 30, 1923]. <br>(English translation of ''Accord relatif à la restitution réciproque des internés civils et àl'échange des prisonniers de guerre, signé à Lausanne, le 3o janvier 1923'').

<center>TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY SIGNED AT LAUSANNE

 

 

THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, GREECE, ROUMANIA and the SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE,

 

of the other part; Being united in the desire to bring to a final

close the state of war which has existed in the East since 1914,

 

 

 

 

Have decided to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, and have appointed

as their Plenipotentiaries:

 

 

INDIA:<br>

The expenses of the Commission shall be borne in equal shares by the

parties concerned.

ARTICLE 6.

In so far as concerns frontiers defined by a waterway as distinct from

its banks, the phrases "course" or "channel" used in the descriptions

of the present Treaty signify, as regards non-navigable rivers, the

median line of the waterway or of its principal branch, and, as

regards navigable rivers, the median line of the principal channel of

navigation. It will rest with the Boundary Commission to specify

whether the frontier line shall follow any changes of the course or

channel which may take place, or whether it shall be definitely fixed

by the position of the course or channel at the time when the present

Treaty comes into force.

In the absence of provisions to the contrary, in the present Treaty,

islands and islets Iying within three miles of the coast are included

within the frontier of the coastal State.

The States concerned also undertake to instruct the local authorities

to communicate to the Commission all documents, especially plans,

regarding property, existing economic conditions and other necessary

information.

ARTICLE 8.

the Boundary Commission, whether directly or through local

authorities, in everything that concerns transport, accommodation,

labour, materials (sign posts, boundary pillars) necessary for the

accomplishment of its mission.

required, the technical personnel necessary to assist the Boundary

Commission in the accomplishment of its duties.

ARTICLE 9.

The various States interested undertake to safeguard the

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 documents

attached thereto will be made out in triplicate, of which two copies

will be forwarded to the Governments of the limitrophe States, and the

authentic copies to the Powers who sign the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 12.

London, in virtue of Articles 5 of the Treaty of London of the

17th-30th May, 1913, and 15 of the Treaty of Athens of the 1st-14th

November, 1913, which decision was communicated to the Greek

Government on the 13th February, 1914, regarding the sovereignty of

confirmed, subject to the provisions of the present Treaty respecting

the islands placed under the sovereigntyof 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:

(I) 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 to 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.

ARTICLE 14.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.<br>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turkey hereby recognises and accepts the frontiers of Germany,

frontiers have been or may be determined by the Treaties referred to

in Article 25 or by any supplementary conventions.

ARTICLE 27.

nationals of a territory placed under the sovereignty or protectorate

of the other Powers signatory of the present Treaty, or over the

nationals of a territory detached from Turkey.

religious authorities are in no way infringed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The stipulations of the present Article in no way prejudge the

established in Turkey.

 

 

 

 

SECTION II .<br>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They will be entitled to retain their immovable property in the

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.

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 theconsent of the

Treaty.

ARTICLE 35.

The Contracting Powers undertake to put no hindrance in the way of the

exercise of the right which the persons concerned have under the

present Treaty, or under the Treaties of Peace concluded with Germany,

Austria, Bulgaria or Hungary, or under any Treaty concluded by the

said Powers, other than Turkey, or any of them, with Russia, or

to them.

ARTICLE 36.

For the purposes of the provisions of this Section, the status of a

married woman will be governed by that of her husband, and the status

of children under eighteen years of age by that of their parents.

Turkey undertakes that the stipulations contained in Articles 38 to 44

shall be recognised as fundamental laws, and that no law, no

regulation, nor official action shall conflict or interfere with these

stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation, nor official action

prevail over them.

ARTICLE 38.

The Turkish Government undertakes to assure full and complete

protection of life and liberty to ali inhabitants of Turkey without

distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion.