The Kurds are considered the biggest losers in the Lausanne Agreement

ARK News… On Saturday, 24/07/2012, 98 years have passed since the signing of the Lausanne Agreement in the Swiss city of Lausanne, which aborted the Treaty of Sevres and the establishment of the Kurdistan State.

Despite the decision taken in the Treaty of Sevres, concluded in 1920, to build a state for the Kurds in southern and northern Kurdistan, the Lausanne Agreement, which was signed by Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Japan on the one hand, and Turkey, on the other hand, overturned the decision on July 24, 1923.

Articles 62, 63, 64 of the Treaty of Sevres mentioned the establishment of the state of Kurdistan, which states:

Article 62: A committee consisting of three members appointed by the British, French, and Italian governments respectively and with Istanbul as its headquarters, will draw up a plan within three months from the date of implementation of the treaty for the Kurdish-majority areas east of the Euphrates, south of the southern border of Armenia, and north of Turkey's border with Syria and Iraq. The plan should include guaranteeing the rights of the Assyrian-Chaldean minorities and other religious minorities residing in the area.

Article 63: The Turkish government agrees to implement the decisions of the mentioned committee in Article 62 within three months of being informed of its decisions.

Article 64: If it appears that the majority of the Kurdish people, as defined in Article 62, have demonstrated the desire for independence from Turkey within one year, and if the Council of the League of Nations considers that these people are capable of enjoying this independence, Turkey will agree to implement the recommendations of the Council, and give up for all its rights and property in this area.

However, because of Ataturk Turkey's rejection of the treaty, a new agreement was concluded which was known as the Treaty of Lausanne in southern Switzerland, which abolished the Treaty of Sevres, thus reversing the establishment of the state of Kurdistan, under the Treaty of Lausanne, most of the Kurdish areas that were under the French mandate were also ceded to Ataturk Turkey, in addition to giving Turkey some of the areas that had been given to Greece in the Treaty of Sevres.

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