Treaty of Sèvres
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| Context | The Peace Treaty between the Allied Powers and the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War |
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| Signed | 10 August 1920 |
| Location | Sèvres, France |
| Signatories | 1. Allied Powers 2. Central Powers |
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 gave parts of Ottoman territory to France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy. It was just one of the treaties that the Central Powers signed with the Allied Powers after their defeat in World War I. The Ottoman Empire had already stopped fighting the allies after the Armistice of Mudros.
Contents
The Treaty of Sèvres comprised a series of different sanctions imposed on the Ottoman Empire after their loss in the First World War. Ranging from territorial losses in Arabia, Armenia, Kurdistan and Thrace to diplomatic and economic articles. Also included were provisions that would limit the new state to rearm itself. These provisions included limitations on the Army, Air and Navy.[1] However shortly after the signing of the treaty, tensions and differences of opinions arose between Britain and France. The French started doubting if the treaty was in their own interest, and the British wanted to ratify the treaty quickly. These tensions meant that the treaty would not be ratified and led to 3 years of war in Anatolia.[2]
Prelude
After the First World War a series of treaties between the Central Powers and Entente powers were signed. The Ottoman Empire belonged to the losing Central Powers after having joined them in 1915. Each Central power signed it's own peace treaty, the one of the Ottomans was The Treaty Of Sèvres.[3] The Treaty of Sèvres was the culmination of months of peace talks after the First World War. The main Entente powers to sign the treaty were Britain, France, Italy and Greece. Britain and France had carved up parts of the Middel-East between the two of them by signing the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The peace talks themselves lasted from the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 to the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.[4]
Consequences
As explained the former Ottoman territories were divided after the First World War into mandated areas governed by the French, British, Italian and Greeks[5] . The French got mandates over Syria, Lebanon and parts of Southern Anatolia, the British got mandates over Palestine and Iraq, the Italian got the Dodecanese Islands and portions of southern and west-central Anatolia, and lastly Greece got the city of Smyrna and its surrounding areas. Apart from this, the Kurds also got autonomous areas within Anatolia as well as the Armenians who got independent areas[6]. Therefore the Turks only had parts of Anatolia, which led to anger among the Turkish population[7].
This anger resulted in a nationalist movement which was not foreseen by the Allies . This nationalist movement was the formation of the resistance and attacks on the Entente were carried out. The British then attacked the Ottoman Parliament, this led to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk convening the Grand National Assembly in Ankara. This became an alternative parliament to the parliament in Istanbul [8]. This parliament opposed the Treaty of Sèvres by refusing to acknowledge the Sultans authority and declaring all provinces in Anatolia and around Istanbul Turkish [9]. This led to the rise of Kemalism in the former Ottoman Empire and the start of a war of independence of the Turkish state. The Entente powers acknowledged that there was a need for new peace terms, which would lead to the signing of the treaty of Lausanne in 1923 [10].
Bibliography
- ↑ "Treaty Of Sèvres". UK Treaties Online. fcdo.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ↑ Montgommery, A.E. (Dec 1972). "The Making of the Treaty of Sevres of 10 August 1920". The Historical Journal. 15 (4). Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ Irish, Tomás (Dec 2022). "The Paris Peace Conference and Cultural Reparations after the First World War*". The English Historical Review. 137 (589).
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Montgommery, A.E. (Dec 1977). "The Making of the Treaty of Sevres of 10 August 1920". Journal of History. 15 (4). Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ Karvounarakis, Theo (2000). "End of an Empire: Great Britain, Turkey and Greece from the Treaty of Sevres to the Treaty of Lausanne". Balkan Studies. 41 (1).
- ↑ Anderson, Betty (2016). A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 201–202.
- ↑ Karčić, Hamza (2020). "Sèvres at 100: The Peace Treaty that Partitioned the Ottoman Empire". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 40 (3): 470–479. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2020.1813988.
{{cite journal}}: Check|doi=value (help); External link in|doi= - ↑ Karčić, Hamza (2020). "Sèvres at 100: The Peace Treaty that Partitioned the Ottoman Empire". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 40 (3): 470–479. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2020.1813988.
{{cite journal}}: Check|doi=value (help); External link in|doi= - ↑ "End of an Empire: Great Britain, Turkey and Greece from the Treaty of Sevres to the Treaty of Lausanne". Balkan Studies (40): 1. Jan 1st 2000. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
{{cite journal}}:|first1=missing|last1=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Shaw, Stanford J. (1977). The Turkish War for Independence, 1918–1923. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. pp. 340–371. Retrieved 15 May 2024.