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Treaty of SèvreseditThe Treaty of Sèvres of August 10, 1920, is the final treaty signed at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. The signatories were the Allied and Associated Powers1 on the one side and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) on the other side. The treaty was ratified by neither the Allied Powers (except for Greece) nor Turkey. It is superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne. 1 the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan (Principal Allied Powers), Armenia, Belgium, Greece, the Hedjaz, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. Previous EventseditThe Armistice of Mudros Proposed TermseditOttoman ReactioneditPress ReactioneditSigning of the TreatyeditThe treaty was signed by the Ottoman Sultan who was trying to save his throne but rejected by the independence movement in rest of Turkey. That movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal used this conflict as an opportunity to declare themselves the rightful government, replacing the monarchy in Istanbul, with a republic in Ankara. Ottoman Empire lost a great deal of territory by the treaty—Hejaz (now part of Saudi Arabia), Armenia, and Kurdistan 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 Straits and Sea of Marmara were to be demilitarized and internationalized. Following EventseditRatification of the TreatyeditRevision of the TreatyeditGovernment of Ankara refused the terms of the treaty and resisted the Greek army invading Turkey. Following the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the terms of Sèvres were revised in Turkey's favor by the Treaty of Lausanne. ReferenceseditExternal Linksedit
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