SEVRES, TREATY OF, the treaty of peace concluded be tween the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey on Aug. 10 1920. It was not ratified and was later superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne which was signed on July 24, 1923. The principal arrangements of the Treaty of Sevres were as follows : The king of Hejaz was recognized as independent. The boundaries of Turkey were so drawn as to exclude her from control of any other Arabian states or of Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and Turkey renounced in favour of the principal Allied Powers rights over territory outside Europe that lay outside her new fron tiers (Egypt, Sudan, Libya [Tripoli], Morocco and Tunis). Palestine was to be entrusted to a Mandatory Power, Syria and Mesopotamia "provisionally recognized as independent states to be advised by Mandatory Powers." Smyrna and the Ionian hinter land were placed under Greek administration for five years, when further arrangements would be made. The Dodecanese islands were ceded to Italy, Imbros and Tenedos to Greece, and Turkey recognized Greece's sovereignty in Lemnos, Samothrace, Mity lene, Chios, Samos, and Nikaria. The zone of the Straits from Constantinople and Scutari to the Dardanelles, and a zone on the Asiatic mainland were handed over to an international com mission to be internationalized and demilitarized. Western Thrace, which had already been ceded to the Allies as a whole, was ceded by them to Greece by separate treaty. Turkey ceded
to Greece Eastern Thrace, to the Chatalja lines. Turkey agreed to recognize Armenia as "a free and independent state" while Kurdistan was to receive local autonomy. The Turkish army was to be reduced to 50,000, all Turkish aircraft was to be surrendered and all the fleet except a few ships and torpedo boats.
The financial clauses charged Turkey with loss, with damage and with war guilt, but admitted that, as her resources were unequal to payment, such claims should be waived. But immense powers were conferred on a financial commission of British, French and Italian representatives with a Turkish representative in a consultative capacity, which was practically empowered to control the budget and the financial laws and regulations of Turkey. The Council of the Ottoman Public Debt was to be similarly formed and to have complete powers over its adminis tration. The Capitulations were to be re-established for the Allies but not for enemy Powers, and the separate postal system of the Allies was also re-erected. Various Turkish ports, Con stantinople, Smyrna, Alexandretta, etc., and the river Maritsa, were to be placed under international control. See H. W. V. Temperley, ed. Hist. of the Peace Conference at Paris, vol. vi. (1924). For the reversal of some of the terms of this treaty see