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The 48 pages that link to Treaty of Lausanne, each with the reason it gives.

• Mustafa Kemal AtatürkRelated: It internationally recognized the state established under Atatürk’s leadership.

• Turkish War of IndependenceRelated: Diplomacy converted military victory into international recognition of Turkey.

• Paris Peace ConferenceRelated: It shows how resistance and renewed conflict overturned part of the conference’s Ottoman settlement.

• Turkish nationalismRelated: Its settlement connected national sovereignty with a territorially defined state.

• Republic of TurkeyRelated: It replaced the unratified Treaty of Sèvres and secured international recognition.

• Eleftherios VenizelosRelated: It reversed many of the territorial ambitions associated with Venizelos’s postwar diplomacy.

• Kurdish nationalismRelated: It left Kurdish-inhabited areas divided among several states without the proposed path to Kurdish autonomy.

• Armistice of MudrosRelated: It replaced the failed settlement imposed after Mudros with an internationally recognized peace.

• Turkish Armed ForcesRelated: It established the international settlement within which the new state organized its defense.

• San Remo ConferenceRelated: It replaced the unratified Treaty of Sèvres and confirmed the postwar settlement's territorial framework.

• Abolition of the Ottoman sultanateRelated: It confirmed internationally the nationalist government that had abolished dynastic rule.

• AnkaraRelated: The treaty settled the international position of the republic whose capital was Ankara.

• DardanellesRelated: It placed the strait within Turkey while initially providing for its demilitarization.

• Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)Related: It formalized the territorial settlement produced by Turkish victory.

• Megali IdeaRelated: It confirmed the territorial settlement that displaced Greek ambitions in Asia Minor.

• Population transferRelated: Its convention formalized a major transfer as part of an international peace settlement.

• Constantine I of GreeceRelated: It formalized the territorial and demographic consequences of the defeat during Constantine’s final reign.

• KemalismRelated: It secured the external recognition that made the new republic’s state-building possible.

• Kurdish–Turkish conflictRelated: Its settlement left Kurdish communities divided among several new states.

• İsmet İnönüRelated: As chief negotiator, İnönü represented the Ankara government at the conference that produced the treaty.

• Mandate for PalestineRelated: It confirmed the postwar settlement as the Palestine mandate came into force.

• ThraceRelated: It fixed the modern Greek-Turkish frontier across Thrace and left a Greek Muslim minority in Western Thrace.

• Abolition of the Ottoman caliphateRelated: It confirmed the republic’s emergence shortly before the caliphate was abolished.

• KurdistanRelated: It consolidated a postwar settlement without creating a Kurdish state.

• George II of GreeceRelated: Its settlement followed the defeat that defined George’s first years as king.

• Greek refugeesRelated: It formalized the removal and resettlement of most remaining Greek Orthodox residents of Turkey.

• LausanneRelated: The treaty was signed in Lausanne, linking the city to modern diplomatic history.

• EnosisRelated: Its settlement confirmed British sovereignty over Cyprus, frustrating hopes for union with Greece.

• Mehmed VIRelated: It replaced the postwar settlement negotiated while Mehmed VI was sultan.

• Turkish national identityRelated: Its minority provisions helped define which religious communities received formal non-Muslim minority status.

• Armenian QuestionRelated: It closed the postwar settlement without the Armenian state envisioned at Sèvres.

• Armenian genocide denialRelated: Its postwar settlement left the Armenian destruction without a comparable international reckoning.

• Black Sea regionRelated: Its convention on the straits helped shape access between the sea and the Mediterranean.

• Armenian national movementRelated: It closed the postwar settlement without establishing the Armenian territorial claims envisioned at Sèvres.

• Burning of SmyrnaRelated: It formalized the postwar settlement after the events that ended Smyrna’s Greek-era administration.

• Italian EmpireRelated: Its provisions transferred the Dodecanese to Italy and fixed a major Mediterranean possession.

• Autocephalous Turkish Orthodox PatriarchateRelated: Its settlement reshaped the legal and demographic environment in which the patriarchate operated.

• East ThraceRelated: It established the international settlement that left East Thrace within Turkey.

• Middle Eastern theatre of World War IRelated: It superseded the unratified Sèvres settlement after the Turkish War of Independence.

• Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-DinRelated: Its settlement helped end Ottoman claims to Yemen after the empire’s collapse.