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The Turkish parliament formed a committee to compare the civil codes of European countries. Austrian, German, French, and Swiss civil codes were examined. [1] Finally on 25 December 1925 the commission decided on the Swiss civil code as a model for the Turkish civil code. [2] The Turkish Civil Code was enacted on 17 February 1926.
Articles 2–7 consider the passage of merchant ships. Articles 8–22 consider the passage of war vessels. The key principle — freedom of passage and navigation — is laid out in articles 1 and 2. Article 1 provides, "The High Contracting Parties recognise and affirm the principle of freedom of passage and navigation by sea in the Straits".
The assembly was appointed in the summer of 1938 and the French-Turkish treaty settling the status of the Sanjak was signed on July 4, 1938. On September 2, 1938, the assembly proclaimed the Sanjak of Alexandretta as the Republic of Hatay. This Republic lasted for one year under joint French and Turkish military supervision.
Borrowing from the French Revolutionary ideals of the nation and the Republic, [citation needed] Article 3 affirms that "The Turkish State, with its territory and nation, is an indivisible entity. Its language is Turkish". Article 66 defines a Turkish civic identity: "everyone bound to the Turkish state through the bond of citizenship is a Turk".
The Constitution was created after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War. [3] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who then became Turkey's first President was a key driver in preparing this Constitution. [3] Mustafa Kemal announced the election of a new assembly to meet in Turkey's capital, Ankara. [3]
The Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne, Turkish: Lozan Antlaşması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 and signed in the Palais de Rumine [1] [2] [3] in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. [4]
Claims for land in the other two thirds depended on either a Turkish or British certificate of registration, or through tax registers and proof of purchase under Jordanian law. [29] On assuming control, Israel suspended these procedures, and asserted that of five categories of land in the old Ottoman Law – waqf .
The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈ s aɪ k s ˈ p iː k oʊ,-p ɪ ˈ k oʊ,-p iː ˈ k oʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.