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  2. Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits

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    The Turkish government reiterated this position when the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rüştu Aras, in his address to the Turkish National Assembly on the occasion of the ratification of the Montreux Treaty, recognised Greece's legal right to deploy troops on Lemnos and Samothrace with the following statement: "The provisions ...

  3. Red Line Agreement - Wikipedia

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    It has been said that, at a meeting in 1928, Gulbenkian drew a red line on a map of the Middle East demarcating the boundaries of the area where the self-denial clause would be in effect. [7] Gulbenkian said this was the boundary of the Ottoman Empire he knew in 1914. He should know, he added, because he was born in it and lived in it.

  4. Turkish Straits crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War-era territorial conflict between the Soviet Union and Turkey. Turkey had remained officially neutral throughout most of the Second World War . [ a ] After the war ended, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet government to institute joint military control of passage through the Turkish Straits , which ...

  5. Standstill agreement - Wikipedia

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    A standstill agreement may be used as a form of defence to a hostile takeover, when a target company acquires a promise from an unfriendly bidder to limit the amount of stock that the bidder buys or holds in the target company. By obtaining the promise from the prospective acquirer, the target company gains more time to build up other takeover ...

  6. Misak-ı Millî - Wikipedia

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    Turkey's borders according to the original National Pact. Some Turkish nationalists still claim these as the legitimate borders of Turkey [1] Misak-ı Millî (Turkish: [misaːˈkɯ milˈliː], National Pact or National Oath) is the set of six decisions made by the last term of the Ottoman Parliament. Parliament met on 28 January 1920 and ...

  7. US senators seek Turkey sanctions, citing military action in ...

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    Two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Friday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or groups that it backs, in northern Syria.

  8. Treaty of Sèvres - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Sèvres (French: Traité de Sèvres) was a 1920 treaty signed between some of the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire, but not ratified.The treaty would have required the cession of large parts of Ottoman territory to France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy, as well as creating large occupation zones within the Ottoman Empire.

  9. Treaty of Lausanne - Wikipedia

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    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]