The Treaty of S�vres 10 August 1920

Oct 03, 2007 23:54:14

The Treaty of Sèvres is a peace treaty signed by the Entente and Associated Powers on 10 August 1920 and the Ottoman Empire after World War I. The treaty was signed in Sèvres, near Paris, by the representatives of the Ottoman Government. However, the Turkish War of Independence forced the former wartime Allies to return to the negotiating table prior to ratification and a new treaty was signed and ratified: the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The Ottoman capital, İstanbul, as well as other parts of Turkey, was under the occupation of several Allied powers. The treaty had four signatories on behalf of the Ottoman government. It was an unestablished agreement in the absence of the Ottoman Parliament, which was forced to close after the session at February 12, 1920 (Abolishment: March 18, 1920). In the absence of the Parliament, it was not sent to the sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin to be ratified, or published in the Takvim-I Vakayi (official newspaper).