The Mitsotakis government is preparing the Greeks for the abolition of the Lausanne Treaty

Lawyer, associate professor of international law and foreign policy at Panteion University, member of parliament from New Democracy Angelos Sirigos made previously unthinkable statements while speaking on the SKAI channel this morning, where he called the Treaty of Lausanne “outdated”!

Sirigos called the treaty “outdated”, especially on the issue of demilitarization of the Greek islands, which opens the door to legitimizing Turkey’s claims.

For the ND deputy, the issue of the minority in Thrace has… some “theoretical significance”, while “97% of all this (i.e. the treaty) has no value today”!

Σοκ και δέος ‼️
«Παρωχημένη η συνθήκη της Λωζάννη,πρέπει να πούμε την αλήθεια στον κόσμο.Το 97% του συνόλου της δεν έχει καμία αξία.
Θεωρητική η σημασία της για τη Θράκη»συμφωνα με τον βουλευτή της ΝΔ,Άγγελο Συρίγο ‼️
Η ΝΔ υιοθετεί την ατζέντα Ερντογαν για αναθεώρηση της συνθήκης pic.twitter.com/nx8pPgYsiD

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Among other things, the deputy emphasized: “Today I think we must move to the next stage and talk about the reality. The Lausanne Treaty is an outdated treaty regarding demilitarization… The Lausanne Treaty is a huge thing that includes a basic agreement and 14 other agreements, annexes and so on. 97% of them, from today’s point of view, have no value. The only ones that have value today are those that define boundaries. Türkiye in relation to neighboring countries. It has value today. The Turks insist that the demilitarization regime has value today, but that it is de facto outdated. In addition, there is a certain theoretical significance in the issue of the presence of two minorities in Thrace and Istanbul…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWnap0zVQ_Y

By Treaty of Lausanne Turkey received Eastern Thrace, Imbros and Tenedos, a strip of land along the border with Syria, the Smyrna region and the zone of the internationalized straits, which remained demilitarized and were subject to consideration at a new international conference.

It ceded the Dodecanese to Italy, as stipulated by the Treaty of Sèvres, but without any provision for self-determination. Italy received full sovereign rights over all of its territory and rights to military installations throughout its territory outside the straits.

One of the points of disagreement was the payment of war reparations by Greece, which the latter, as it stated, was not in a position to agree to. As a result, Turkey agreed to receive the Karagats triangle in Thrace, also known as the Old Orestiad, as compensation.

The islands of Imbros and Tenedos were ceded to Turkey on the condition that they would be administered on terms favorable to the Greeks (in 1926, the Turkish government legally abolished this provision).

The Ecumenical Patriarch lost the status of a national archbishop, and the patriarchate received a special international legal status.

In exchange, Turkey renounced all claims to the territory of the old Ottoman Empire outside its borders and guaranteed the rights of minorities in Turkey.

In a separate agreement between Greece and Turkey, it was decided that the two countries would be obliged to exchange populations, and that on some Aegean islands (Lemnos, Samothrace, Samos, Chios, Lesvos, Ikaria) “no naval base would be established.” Later, according to the Treaty of Montreux, to which Greece was a party, Turkey again received the right to militarize the straits, Imbros, Tenedos, and Greece – Lemnos and Samothrace.

Read more about the Treaty of Lausanne in the publication on link.

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