Main opposition leader KILICDAROGLU: Lausanne is the title deed of our country

CHP Chairman KILICDAROGLU has said: “The first legislative proposal we will give when the Parliament is opened will be the proposal to accept Lausanne as an official holiday. Lausanne is the title deed of our country.”

In a statement on his Twitter account on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Peace Treaty, CHP Chairman KILICDAROGLU used the following statements:

“I commemorate with respect and gratitude, Mustafa Kemal ATATURK, Ismet INONU and all our national war of independence heroes who paved the way for an independent Turkey by signing a great diplomatic victory, and I celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Peace Treaty.

I say this on the anniversary of the Lausanne Peace Treaty, which enabled us to crown our great independence war with a great victory of diplomacy. The first legislative proposal we will make when the Parliament is opened will be the proposal to adopt Lausanne as an official holiday. Lausanne is the title deed of our country.

WHAT HAPPENED IN LAUSSANE

Treaty of Lausanne, (1923), final treaty concluding World War I. It was signed by representatives of Turkey (successor to the Ottoman Empire) on one side and by Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) on the other. The treaty was signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 24, 1923, after a seven-month conference.

The treaty recognized the boundaries of the modern state of Turkey. Turkey made no claim to its former Arab provinces and recognized British possession of Cyprus and Italian possession of the Dodecanese. The Allies dropped their demands of autonomy for Turkish Kurdistan and Turkish cession of territory to Armenia, abandoned claims to spheres of influence in Turkey, and imposed no controls over Turkey’s finances or armed forces. The Turkish straits between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea were declared open to all shipping.

Turkey (accepted as successor to the Ottoman Empire, at the time) had fought Greece supported by allies (UK, France etc) in a war of independence under the leadership of GREAT ATATURK and declared its independence following a great victory against its rivals (at the time). In Lausanne, this victory was documented on 24 July 1923 and the Republic of Turkey was established as a sovereign state in the same year.