Open links in new tab
  1. Treaty of Lausanne - Wikipedia

    • The Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne, Turkish: Lozan AntlaĹźması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially resolved the conflict that had initially arisen between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Fren… See more

    Background

    After the withdrawal of the Greek forces in Asia Minor and the expulsion of the Ottoman Sultan by the Turkish army under … See more

    Stipulations

    The treaty was composed of 143 articles with major sections including:
    The treaty provided for the independence of the Republic of Turkey but also for the protection of the Greek Orthodox Christian minority in … See more

    Signed24 July 1923
    LocationLausanne, Switzerland
    Effective6 August 1924
    ConditionFollowing ratification by Turkey and any three of the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Japan, the treaty would come into force for those "high contracting parties" and thereafter for each additional signatory upon deposit of ratification
    Declaration of Amnesty

    Annex VIII to the treaty, called "Declaration of Amnesty", granted immunity to the perpetrators of any crimes "connected to political events" committed between 1914 and 1922. The treaty thus put an end to the effort to pro… See more

    Legacy

    The Treaty of Lausanne led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the new Republic of Turkey as the successor state of the Ottoman Empire. As result of the Treaty, the Ottoman public debt was di… See more

    Conspiracy theories

    The Treaty of Lausanne has given rise to a number of Islamist conspiracy theories in Turkey to defame the post-war Turkish secular nationalist rule of the country. For example, it has been claimed that the treaty was signe… See more

    Further reading

    • Kieser, Hans-Lukas (2023). When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316516423.
    • Tusan, Michelle (2023). The Last Treaty: Lausanne … See more

     
  1. The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in 1923 in Switzerland's city Lausanne, after Turkey had won the Greco-Turkish War in 1919 to 1922. It settles the border between Greece and Turkey and the other borders of Turkey. Other countries that signed the treaty were Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and Yugoslavia.
    Was this helpful?
  2. People also ask
  3. Treaty of Lausanne | Summary, Terms, & Facts | Britannica

  4. Treaty of Lausanne - World War I Document Archive

  5. The Treaty of Lausanne

    The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was the last of the peace settlements negotiated at the end of the First World War, and the only one to endure to this day. It brokered peace between Turkey and the “Allied and Associated Powers”: Britain, …

  6. The Treaty of Lausanne | Dodis

  7. Treaty Of Lausanne | Encyclopedia.com

  8. Treaty of Lausanne - (World War I) - Fiveable

  9. Treaty of Lausanne - New World Encyclopedia

    The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) that had …

  10. Treaty of Lausanne - Wikiwand

  11. A Farewell to Arms: Ending the War and Negotiating the Treaty of ...