1945/07/01 by Majid Khadduri · 34 citations
Social Sciences · #Economics #Law #League #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Political science #Politics #Position (finance) #Power (physics) #Prestige #Settlement (finance) #Territorial dispute #Turkish
paper · doi:10.2307/2193522
published in American Journal of International Law 39(3), 406-425 (Cambridge University Press)
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The Franco-Turkish dispute over the Sanjak of Alexandretta presents another notable case of the consequences of the acceptance of an imperfect settlement at Lausanne between the Allies and Turkey following the first World War. The most important dispute that arose from the Lausanne settlement related to the Vilayat of Mosul, a district comprising the whole northern section of Iraq and valuable for its oil and strategic position, in which Turkey challenged Great Britain's interests and prestige in Iraq.That dispute was successfully settled by the Council of the League of Nations in 1925 in favour of Iraq. Ten years later another dispute arose from the imperfect settlement of Lausanne which concerned this time Turkey's frontiers with Syria. By then the international situation had deteriorated and the League's prestige was undermined. France, the Mandatory Power for Syria, was in need of Turkey's friendship and consequently her bargaining position was weaker. The dispute was eventually won by Turkey.