Treaty of Peace With Turkey, Treaty Series No. 16 (1923)

Summary of Contents

Final Act of Conference / 3
List of delegates / 3
List of instruments drawn up / 7

1.-Treaty of Peace / 11

Preamble / 11

Part I. Political Clauses -

Preliminary Clause (Article I) / 13

Section I-
(1.) Territorial Clauses (Articles 2 to :22) / 13
(2.) Special Provisions (Articles 23 to 29) / 23
Section II. Nationality (Articles 30 to 36) / 27
Section III. Protection of Minorities (Articles / 37 to 45) / 29
Part II. Financial Clauses - Section I. Ottoman Public Debt (Articles 4 to 57) / 35
Annex; Schedule of pre-war debt / 47
Section II. Miscellaneous Clauses (Articles 58 to 63) / 49
Part III. Economic clauses - Preliminary Clause (Article 64) / 53
Section I. Property, Rights and Interests (Articles 65 to 72) / 53
Section Il. Contracts, Prescriptions and Judgments (Articles 73 to 81) / 59
Annex I. Life Assurance / 67
II. Marine Insurance / 71
III. Fire and other Insurances / 71
Section III. Debts (Articles 84 and 85) / 71
Section IV. Industrial, Literary and Artistic Property (Articles 86 to 91) / 71
Section V. Mixed Arbitral Tribunal (Articles 92 to 98) / 77
Section VI. Treaties (Articles 99 and) / 81
Part IV. Communications and Sanitary Questions-
Section I. Communications (Articles 101 to 113) / 85
Section II. Sanitary Questions (Articles 114 to 118) / 91
Part V. Miscellaneous Provisions-Section I. Prisoners of War (Articles 119 to 123) / 93
Section H. Graves (Articles 124 to 136) / 95
Section III. General Provisious (Articles 137 to 143) / 103
II.-Straits Convention / 109
III.-Convention respecting the Thracian frontier / 129
IV.-Convention respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction / 139
Chapter I. Conditions of Residence and Business Preliminary clause (Article 1) / 141
Section I. Entry and Residence (Articles 2 to 7) / 141
Section II. Fiscal clauses (Articles 8 to 13) / 145
Chapter II. Jurisdiction (Articles 14 to 18) / 149
Chapter IT[. Final Provisions (Articles 19 to 21) / 151
V. - Commercial Convention / 153
Section I. ( Articles 1 to S) / 157
Annex I. List of articles subject to the coefficient 9 / 163
II. Consumption taxes / 163
UL Form of certificate of origin / 105
Section II. (Articles \J to 11) / 167
Section III. (Articles 12 to 15) / 169
General Provisions ( Articles 16 to 19) / 171
VI. - Convention concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish
Populations, signed at Lausanne January 30, 1923 / 175
Protocol attached to above relative to the release of able - bodied men / 185
VII.-Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne January 30, 19:23 / 187
Chapter I. Interned civilians (Articles 1 to 3) / 187
Chapter II. Prisoners of war (Articles 4 and 5) / 189
Chapter III. Commission for the execution of the agreement (A.rticles 6 and 7) / 189
VIII. - Declaration relating to the Amnesty / 191
Protocol attached to the above / 195
IX. - Declaration relating to Moslem properties in Greece / 197
X. - Declaration relating to sanitary matters in Turkey / 199
XI - Declaration relating to the administration of justice in Turkey / 201
XII.-Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire / 203
Section I. (Articles 1 to 8) / 203
Section II. (Articles 9 to 13) / 209
Declaration attached to the above / 211

1660 Wt. - 2250 7/23 F.O.P. [10368]
Wt. 16059/435 1000 10/23 [10682]

XIII.-Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions and instruments signed at Lausanne / 213
Declaration by Belgian delegate / 213
Declaration by Portuguese delegate / 215
XIV.-Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces / 215
Declaration attached to the above / 219
XV.-Protocol relative to the Karagatch territory and the Islands of Imbros and Tenedos / 223
XVI.-Protocol relating to t.he Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the principal Allied Powers and Greece on August 10, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same Powers relating to Thrace / 225
XVII.-Protocol relating to signature by the. Serb-Croat-Slovene State / 227
Letters exchanged between Isiuef Pasha and Sir H. Rumbold respecting the exemption of Allied nationals, who suffered from the Smyrna fire, from the payment of the arrears of temettu tax due for the financial year 1922-1923 / 229
Letter addressed by the delegates of the three inviting Powers to İsmet Pasha in connection with the suppression of Article 70 of the original draft Treaty of Peace (financial operations of the Council of the Ottoman Debt after October 30, 1918) / 229
Footnote: Copy of draft letter referred to in above document.
Letters exchanged between Ismet Pasha and Sir H. Rumbold respecting the treatment to be accorded by the Turkish Government to British religious, scholastic and medical establishments and charitable institutions in Turkey / 231
Letters exchanged between Ismet Pasha and Sir H. Rumbold respecting cabotage / 233
Letter addressed by Ismet Pasha to Sir H. Rumbold enclosing copy of letter sent by Ismet Pasha to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. and Messrs. Vickers, Limited; together with copy of acknowledgment sent by Sir H. Rumbold / 237
Letter addressed by the Turkish delegation to the President of the Third Committee in regard to certain railway and port concessions in Turkey / 239
Convention regarding compensation payable by Greece to Allied nationals / 239