Editing Treaty of Lausanne (section)

==Background==
{{main|Lausanne Conference of 1922–23}}
{{See also|Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire|Turkish War of Independence}}
[[File:SevresTreaty.png|thumb|300px|Borders of Turkey according to the unratified [[Treaty of Sèvres]] (1920) which was annulled and replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) in the aftermath of the [[Turkish War of Independence]]]]

After the withdrawal of the Greek forces in [[Asia Minor]] and the expulsion of the Ottoman Sultan by the Turkish army under the command of [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], the [[Ankara]]-based [[Government of the Grand National Assembly|Kemalist government]] of the [[Turkish National Movement]] rejected the territorial losses imposed by the 1920 [[Treaty of Sèvres]], previously signed by the Ottoman Empire but remaining unratified. Britain had sought to undermine Turkish influence in [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Kirkuk]] by seeking the creation of a [[Kurds|Kurdish]] state in [[Eastern Anatolia]]. Secular Kemalist rhetoric relieved some of the international concerns about the future of [[Armenians]] who had survived the 1915 [[Armenian genocide]], and support for Kurdish [[Self-determination|self determination]] similarly declined. Under the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923, Eastern Anatolia became part of modern-day Turkey, in exchange for Turkey's relinquishing Ottoman-era claims to the oil-rich Arab lands.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Darren L. Logan |date=2009 |title=Thoughts on Iraqi Kurdistan: Present Realities, Future Hope |journal=Iran & the Caucasus |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=161–186 |doi=10.1163/160984909X12476379008205 |jstor=25597401}}</ref>

Negotiations were undertaken during the [[Lausanne Conference of 1922–23|Conference of Lausanne]]. [[İsmet İnönü]] was the chief negotiator for Turkey. [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon]], the [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|British Foreign Secretary]] of that time, was the chief negotiator for the Allies, while [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] negotiated on behalf of [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]]. The negotiations took many months. On 20 November 1922, the peace conference was opened; the treaty was signed on 24 July after eight months of arduous negotiation, punctuated by several Turkish withdrawals. The Allied delegation included U.S. Admiral [[Mark L. Bristol]], who served as the United States High Commissioner and supported Turkish efforts.<ref>Morgenthau, Henry, ''Ambassador Morgenthau's Story'', (Detroit: [[Wayne State University]], 2003), 303.</ref>