The Historical Journal

Table of Contents - 01 December 1972 - Volume 15, Issue 04  

Articles

VIII. The Making of the Treaty of Sèvres of 10 August 1920

A. E. Montgomerya1

a1 University of Birmingham

The Treaty of Sèvres was stillborn. It was signed on 10 August 1920, as a treaty of peace between the principal Allied Powers and Turkey, but was never ratified. During the succeeding two years, the triumphs of Mustapha Kemal were to render the projected peace terms obsolete and to necessitate the negotiation of an entirely new treaty. But the failure of the Treaty of Sevres cannot be attributed to Kemal alone. The seeds of disaster lay in the conflicting interests of the Allies themselves.