Treaty of Sèvres

Sèvres, Treaty of (1920), peace pact between the Allies and Turkey after World War I, signed at Sèvres, France. It redistributed almost all of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, leaving only Istanbul and Anatolia under Turkish control. Though signed by the representatives of Sultan Mohammed VI, the treaty was never ratified by the Turkish National Assembly. After the overthrow of the government by Kemal Atatürk and the nationalists (1922), the Treaty of Sèvres was superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which offered Turkey more acceptable terms.

See also: World War I.