Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
December 16, 2009 Wednesday
First Edition
1922;
IN THE HERALD
by Malcolm Brown
The Lausanne Conference was held between the Great Powers to
renegotiate the Treaty of Sevres between the Ottoman Empire and the
Allies. But it ran into obstacles when the Turkish representative,
Izmet Pasha, refused to yield on proposals that the Armenians have
their own homeland. Turkey was prepared to give ground on other
matters. This included allowing 200,000 Greeks to remain in
Constantinople and an amnesty for other Greeks who might have been
required to leave Turkey. But they said an Armenian homeland would
break up Turkey. The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, said that
unless the Turks immediately changed their attitude, the Christian
nations would walk out of the conference.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
