HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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prevented the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.
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gave Russia control of most of the Ottoman Empire’s lands in the Middle East.
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required the Ottoman Empire to renounce control over its non-Turkish provinces.
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established Turkey and declared it a mandate of the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Treaty of Sèvres, (August 10, 1920), post-World War I pact between the victorious Allied powers and representatives of the government of Ottoman Turkey. The treaty abolished the Ottoman Empire and obliged Turkey to renounce all rights over Arab Asia and North Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kemal believed that the leaders of the Ottoman Empire had taken the people of Turkey into World War One and that the Turkish people should not be punished for the actions of their former leaders. His stand meant that the victorious Allies and the newly created Turkey had to start treaty negotiations afresh.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the reaction of Turkey to the Treaty of Sevres? The people of Turkey were so angry with the treaty they overthrew their government. Their new leader said he would fight the Allies over the treaty. How did Britain respond to Turkey’s reaction to the Treaty of Sevres?
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Lausanne led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the new Republic of Turkey as the successor state of the Ottoman Empire. As result of the Treaty, the Ottoman public debt was divided between Turkey and the countries which emerged from the former Ottoman Empire.
Detailed explanation-5: -Treaties of Sèvres & Lausanne In Asia, Turkey renounced sovereignty over Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Palestine (including Trans-Jordan), which became British mandates; Syria (including Lebanon), which became a French mandate; and the kingdom of Hejaz. Turkey retained Anatolia but was to grant autonomy to Kurdistan.