Among many agreements was a separate agreement with the United States, the Chester concession. In the United States, the treaty was rejected by several political groups, including the Committee against the Treaty of Lausanne (COLT), and on January 18, 1927, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty by 50 votes to 34, six votes less than the two-thirds requested by the Constitution. [20] As a result, Turkey cancelled the concession. [9] The international community has begun to pay greater attention to Turkey`s efforts, particularly towards the expiry of the Treaty of Lausanne. Under international law, any contract expires after 100 years and Erdogan wants to link the expiration of the treaty in 2023 to the current situation in Mosul, northern Iraq, and Raqqa and Afrin in Syria. The Treaty of Sevres imposed much stricter conditions on the Ottoman Empire than those imposed on the German Empire by the Treaty of Versaille. [23] [24] France, Italy and Great Britain had begun secretly planning the division of the Ottoman Empire as early as 1915. The open negotiations took place over a period of more than 15 months, which began at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, continued at the London Conference of February 1920 and did not take shape until after the San Remo conference in April 1920.

This delay is due to the fact that the powers have not reached an agreement, which in turn depends on the outcome of the Turkish National Movement. After Turkey`s war of independence, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified and, after Turkey`s war of independence, most of the sevres signatory countries signed and ratified the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and 1924. The treaty is looming even more. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has a penchant for position on historical symbols, began meeting late last year with the head of Libya`s UNITED Nations-backed government at a former palace of Ottoman sultans in Istanbul. After one of those meetings, Erdogan explicitly linked his government`s newly strengthened foreign policy to a historic settlement. “Thanks to this military and energy cooperation, we have overthrown the Treaty of Sevres,” he said, praising his country`s desire to re-project power over the Mediterranean.