Treaty of Sèvres
The
Treaty of Sèvres of
August 10,
1920, made peace between the Allied Powers
1 and the
Ottoman Empire after
World War I. Turkey lost a great deal of territory by the treaty -
Hejaz and
Armenia were to become independent,
Mesopotamia and
Palestine were given as
Mandates to the
United Kingdom,
Syria and
Lebanon to
France. The
Dodecanese and
Rhodes were to go to
Italy,
Thrace and
Smyrna to
Greece (the latter provisionally). The Straits and
Sea of Marmara were to be demilitarized and internationalized. Following the Greco-Turkish War, the terms of Sèvres were revised in Turkey's favor by the
Treaty of Lausanne.
1 the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, France, Italy, Japan, Armenia, Belgium, Greece, Hejaz, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
External Link
Text of the Treaty of Sèvres