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End of the Ottoman Empire 1918-1924 
As a defeated power, the Ottoman Empire had no official say in the initial Paris 
peace treaties after the First World War. In the Treaty of Sevres, the victorious 
powers divided the Ottoman Empire, Armenia, Yemen and what would become 
Saudi Arabia, and gave them their independence. Izmir was awarded to 
Greece, Britain supervised mandates in Palestine and Mesopotamia, and 
France supervised a mandate in Syria. The Ottoman government’s compliance 
with the Treaty resulted in it being overthrown by the nationalist general, 
Mustafa Kemal. Kemal proclaimed Turkey to be a republic and went on to 
defeat Greek forces and re-take Izmir. Kemal and his army then defeated 
Armenian forces, integrating southern Armenia into Turkey. The 1923 Treaty of 
Lausanne accepted the realities of Turkish military power and formally 
recognised Kemal’s conquests.
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Map showing 1917 boundary of the Ottoman Empire which was dismantled in 
the post-war treaties of Sèvres (1920) and Lausanne (1923) to form Turkey, 
Syria, and Iraq. Armenian territory within the Ottoman Empire was granted 
independence by the first treaty but subsumed by Turkey in the second. 
Modern post-Soviet Armenia occupies area in the South Caucasus seized by 
Russia in the 1870s. 
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1918 map showing proposed post-war redistribution of Ottoman and Arabian 
territory on the principal of national/ethnic self-determination – a central tenet 
of the League of Nations. Syria, Jordan and Iraq were formed within the area 
shown as ‘Arab Countries’ out of mandates granted to Britain and France; 
attempts to create an independent Kurdistan, and an adjacent Assyrian 
Christian enclave (marked ‘E’ on map), came to nothing.