LAUSANNE CONFERENCES

two conferences held at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1922 and 1923, between the Allied Powers and Turkey. Their object was to settle questions in dispute between Turkey and Greece following the defeat of the latter in the Turko-Grecian war of 1922. The Allied Powers included France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania and Greece. and Bulgaria were represented second conference relating to the The United States was also represented by Richard Watson Child as an observer. The chief points brought forward Turkey were the regulations in to the Dardanelles and the Bosporus; the po e ion of Constantinople; abolition of the capitulations or rights of foreigners in Turkey; exchange of minority populations tween Greece and Turkey; independence of the Arab States; the Bagdad the ce ion of eastern Thrace to reparations; together with minor tions. After prolonged discu ion received many of the conce ions for, including the po e ion of Thrace and the practical po e ion Asia Minor. The Allied Powers, ever, refused to abolish the capitulations and Great Britain refused to return territory of Mosul to Turkey. question of Constantinople was abeyance. The Turkish delegation fused to sign the treaty and the conference broke up. ‘The Parliament supported the action of delegates. | _The second conference, which was effort to further solve questions at met at Lausanne in May, 1923. the results of this conference, TurKEY, History.