Around 6,000 Kurds rallied on Saturday to demonstrate against the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne which defined the borders of modern Turkey but shattered aspirations for a Kurdish state.

The Treaty of Lausanne was the first conspicuous failure of British diplomacy in more than a century. Greek troops had been permitted to occupy Smyrna and Anatolia in 1919 and 1920.

İsmet İnönü, the head of the Turkish delegation (second from left), at the negotiations of the Lausanne treaty in 1923. Chronicle/Alamy. In the 1950s, Atilhan and Kısakürek argued that the ...

Ironically, the Lausanne treaty of 1923 thus stabilised a festering instability to Turkish advantage. Kurds — a distinct ethnicity, neither Turkish, Persian, nor Arab — were the principal losers.

Peace treaty signed in July 24, 1923 at Palais de Rumine in Lausanne after months of negotiations at Beau Rivage Palace Hotel - Anadolu Ajansı ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 23 (Reuters) - (This July 24 story has been refiled to fix a link in paragraph 9) The Treaty of Lausanne that formed modern Turkey is still cherished by some but ...

The Lausanne Treaty marked the culmination of the Turkish War of Independence. With the Ottoman Empire on the losing side in World War I, the Allied Powers resorted to partition and occupation.

The Lausanne Treaty defined both countries' national borders, which remain the same to this day, with the exception of one change in 1939, when Hatay elected to become a Turkish province.

Commonly regarded as the“birth certificate” of modern Turkey, the 1923 treaty of Lausanne was the last of the peace settlements signed at the end of the first world war. This year's centenary ...