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Treaty of Sèvres

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Last Updated: Aug 3, 2024• Article History

Date:

August 10, 1920

Participants:

Ottoman Empire

Allied powers

Key People:

Kemal Atatürk

Mehmed VI

Eleuthérios Venizélos

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Treaty of Sèvres, (August 10, 1920), post-World War I pact between the victorious Allied powers and representatives of the government of Ottoman Turkey. The treaty abolished the Ottoman Empire and obliged Turkey to renounce all rights over Arab Asia and North Africa. The pact also provided for an independent Armenia, for an autonomous Kurdistan, and for a Greek presence in eastern Thrace and on the Anatolian west coast, as well as Greek control over the Aegean islands commanding the Dardanelles. Rejected by the new Turkish nationalist regime, the Treaty of Sèvres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.

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