WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The 1923 treaty through which major European powers sanctioned ethnic cleansing by allowing ethnic Greeks to be moved from Turkey to Greece and ethnic Turks to be moved from Greece to Turkey was the
A
Treaty of Versailles.
B
Treaty of Sevres.
C
Treaty of Lausanne.
D
Treaty of Paris.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne, Turkish: Lozan Antlaşması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne January 30 1923.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was the last of the peace settlements negotiated at the end of the First World War, and the only one to endure to this day. It brokered peace between Turkey and the “Allied and Associated Powers”: Britain, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Romania and Yugoslavia.

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