The treaty had four signatories, Rıza Tevfik, the grand vizier Damat Ferid Pasha, ambassador Hadi Pasha and the minister of education Reşid Halis who were endorsed by Sultan Mehmed VI. The treaty was not sent to Ottoman Parliament for ratification, as it was abolished on March 18, 1920 by the British, during the occupation of Istanbul. The treaty was never ratified by the Ottoman Empire.
Like ottomans, except greece, no parliament accepted this. Of course, You can talk about Rıza Tevfik, the grand vizier Damat Ferid Pasha, ambassador Hadi Pasha and the minister of education Reşid Halis about your wishes. But they are death. I hope, You wait more than you hope for talking them.
UrMistake jan, some of the odar people in here like bell-the-cat and Palavra you'd think they can read.
Londontsi jan, you put it well, turkey does know the relevance of Sevres Treaty Tashnakir; otherwise they won't be so nervous.
Gavur jan, this man is obviously very nervous about us even mentioning the word Sevres Treaty
As far as I'm concerned and since I constantly bring up the Wilson arbitration issue: it's not about populating Turk occupied Armenia with Armenians from one day to the next. It's not even about Turkey ceding it from one day to another. Here I briefly mention some benefits for Armenians (and Turks) if the Wilson border becomes reality:
I. It will force the Turk army to demilitarize the territory, taking its troops back hundreds of kilometers from the present location, lifting the danger of a probable attack on Armenia.
II. Thus, it will drive the final nail in the coffin of pan-Turkism, the actual policy behind forcing Armenia to cede historically Armenian territories to the sore “Azeri” losers and perpetrators of genocide and war, another variant of the species of invading hordes that happens to have usurped about 90% of historically Armenian land through genocide.
III. Armenia will have an outlet to international waters and the possibility to use the ports at the Black Sea, excluding the possibility of a blockade by Turkey like in the present situation.
IV. Using the ports, Armenia will have a direct transport route with Europe and Russia, forever getting rid of the caprices of the failed state of Georgia, along with fake “Azerbaijan”, the other mini empire of the Caucasus.
V. From the emotional point of view, Armenia will include Mount Ararat, Kars (and Ani), Van (and the lake), etc., once again.
VI. Turkey will have to regularly pay taxes to Armenia for all the pipelines that cross this territory, the very pipelines that were designed to bypass Armenia. This will provide an additional income for Armenia, boosting the economy.
VII. When this happens, Turkey will get rid of a huge part of the Kurdish problem and since the “Armenian wedge” will be too wide to destroy, hence, pan-Turkism will die a final death, this will force Turks to lose all delusion of their pan-Turkic empire and maybe, just maybe, they'll start to think healthy and look objectively at their bloody history. If this happens, it may herald the start of their metamorphosis from Turk to man.
On the negative side for Armenia, we have the Turk/Kurd population of the region. It will be lethal for Armenians if say, a million Turks/Kurds decide to move to Yerevan. I have a few scenarios/solutions regarding this and I will go into it in a future post. In any case, the politicians and law experts in Armenia should as of now think of ways to deal with this.
Anyway, noone can enforce wilson armenia to Turkey without a blood war. I do not see any nation who can win that war or want that war. Neither Russia nor USA will help you. Infact, I am curious If They have enough resource to occupy all Turkey.
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