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The
Treaty of Ankara (or the
Accord of Ankara;
Franklin-Bouillon Agreement;
Franco-Turkish Agreement of Ankara) was signed on October 20, 1921 between
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
and
Turkish revolutionaries (Turkish Grand National Assembly) of
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
. The signatories were French diplomat Henri Franklin-Bouillon and the foreign minister, Yusuf Kemal
BeyBey is a Turkish title for "chieftain," traditionally applied to the leaders of small tribal groups. In historical accounts, many Turkish, other Turkic and Persian leaders are titled Bey, Beg, Bek, Bay, Baig or Beigh...
. Based on the terms of the agreement, the French acknowledged the end of the Cilicia War, however other French units in Turkey were not affected, in return for economic concessions from Turkey. In return, the Turkish government acknowledged French imperial sovereignty over
French Mandate of SyriaThe French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...
. This annulment of French claims over Turkish land was officially recognised in the
Armistice of MudanyaThe Armistice of Mudanya was an agreement between Turkey, Italy, France and Britain, signed in the town of Mudanya, Turkey, on 11 October, 1922. Greece acceded to the armistice on 14 October...
.
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