Editing City-state (section)

====Ottoman====
Some proposals for the [[partition of the Ottoman Empire]] envisaged international zones at [[Istanbul]]/Constantinople or the wider [[Turkish straits]],<ref>{{multiref|
{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=G. |title=British Foreign Policy during the Curzon Period, 1919–24 |date=9 August 1995 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-37735-6 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iSBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 |language=en}}|
{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Harold Ray |title=Conrad, Geopolitics, and "The Future of Constantinople" |journal=The Conradian |date=2006 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=15–27 |jstor=20873573 |issn=0951-2314}}|
{{cite journal |title=Constantinople as a Free City |journal=The Literary Digest |date=3 December 1921 |volume=71 |issue=1650 |page=19 |url=https://archive.org/details/literarydigest71newy/page/n616 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls |location=New York}}|
{{cite book |last1=Helmreich |first1=Paul C. |title=From Paris to Sèvres: the partition of the Ottoman Empire at the Peace Conference of 1919–1920 |date=1974 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |location=Columbus |isbn=978-0-8142-0170-1 |pages=22–23, 40, 44, 154–155, 189–190 |url=https://archive.org/details/fromparistosevre0000helm}}
}}</ref> and possibly also at [[İzmir]]/Smyrna.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tusan |first1=Michelle |title=The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East |date=15 June 2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-37108-7 |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjHEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155 |language=en}}</ref> Although the [[allies of World War I]] occupied both after the 1918 [[Armistice of Mudros]], the British-led [[occupation of Istanbul]] recognised Turkey as de jure sovereign, while the Greek [[occupation of Smyrna]] was [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|an attempted annexation]]. The 1923 [[Treaty of Lausanne]] re-established Turkish control of both areas.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}