Treaty of Sèvres

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Not to be confused with the Protocol of Sèvres.

The Treaty of Sèvres (French: Traité de Sèvres) was

a 1920 treaty signed between the Allies of World
War I and the Ottoman Empire. The treaty ceded
large parts of Ottoman territory to France, the
United Kingdom, Greece and Italy, as well as
creating large occupation zones within the Ottoman
Empire. It was one of a series of treaties[3] that the
Central Powers signed with the Allied Powers after
their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already
ended with the Armistice of Mudros.

Treaty of Sèvres
The Treaty of Peace Between the Allied Powers
and the Ottoman Empire

Partition of the Ottoman Empire according to the

Treaty of Sèvres and the Greco-Italian treaty

Signed 10 August 1920

Location Sèvres, France

Condition Ratification by Ottoman

Empire and the four
principal Allied Powers.

Signatories 1. Principal Allied

Powers[1]
France
British Empire
Italy
Japan
Other Allied Powers
Armenia
Belgium
Greece
Hejaz
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes
Czechoslovakia

2. Central Powers
Ottoman Empire

Depositary French Government

Languages French (primary),

English, Italian[2]

Full text

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The Ottoman delegation at

Sèvres comprising the three
signatories of the treaty. Left
to right: Rıza Tevfik
Bölükbaşı, Grand Vizier
Damat Ferid Pasha, the
Ottoman education minister
Mehmed Hâdî Pasha and
ambassador Reşat Halis.

Mehmed Hâdî Pasha signs the Treaty

of Sèvres.

The treaty was signed on 10 August 1920 in an

exhibition room at the Manufacture nationale de
Sèvres porcelain factory[4] in Sèvres, France.[5]

The Treaty of Sèvres marked the beginning of the

partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty's
stipulations included the renunciation of most
territory not inhabited by Turkish people and their
cession to the Allied administration.[6]

The ceding of Eastern Mediterranean lands saw the

introduction of novel polities, including the British
Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate for
Syria and Lebanon.[7]

Syrian Northern Sanjaks ceded to

Turkey by France in the Treaty of
Ankara 1921 (area shaded in yellow).
The orange line shows the Treaty of
Sèvres border

The terms stirred hostility and Turkish nationalism.

The treaty's signatories were stripped of their
citizenship by the Grand National Assembly, led by
Mustafa Kemal Pasha,[8] which ignited the Turkish
War of Independence. Hostilities with Britain over
the neutral zone of the Straits were narrowly avoided
in the Chanak Crisis of September 1922, when the
Armistice of Mudanya was concluded on 11 October,
leading the former Allies of World War I to return to
the negotiating table with the Turks in November
1922. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which
superseded the Treaty of Sèvres, ended the conflict
and saw the establishment of the Republic of
Turkey.

Summary

Parties

Provisions

Abandonment

Subsequent treaties

See also

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Further reading

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