After the signing of the Washington Treaty, Romania was silently fighting for its naval dream.

And in Asia Minor, there is also a group of people who are fighting for their homeland, and that is the Turks. As punishment for the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France confirmed it in the Treaty of Sèvres.

It reads as follows; The west of the Chatalga line was ceded to Greece, and the sovereignty west of Suik to Buhaniye was temporarily vested in Turkey, and five years later (1925) a referendum was held to decide whether to annex to Greece; On the Black Sea coast, east of Kiresun, west of El Xinjiang, west of Mush, south of Bitlis, and Lake Van returned to the newly formed Armenia.

The area of the strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, will become a demilitarized zone, but the Entente will have the right of military action in the area. The United States, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and Romania form the "Straits Management Committee" to be responsible for shipping, lighthouse management, and navigation in the region.

The territories of Arabia and Iraq, formerly part of the Ottoman region, were ceded to Britain and France, and new protectorates were established. The south of Karatashi and Mardin is to Syria, and the south of Mosul is to Iraq.

The Ottomans had to abolish conscription, and the number of troops in the country should not exceed 45,000, and there should be no heavy weapons, no air force, no navy, and no large merchant ships.

Taxes collected by the Ottoman Empire were given priority to pay war reparations and the costs of the Allies' occupation forces.

Extraterritoriality is restored. Even if any regime succeeded the Ottoman Empire in the future, extraterritoriality would still apply. When the Turkish people became naturalized in any of the Entente countries, they were guaranteed extraterritoriality and were no longer required to pay taxes to the Ottoman government.

If the implementation of the terms did not conform to the wishes of the Entente, Istanbul would be occupied.

This clause can be said to limit Ottoman territory to the peninsula of Asia Minor, and it no longer has the right to administer the Black Sea straits. The coast of the Sea of Love was also given to Greece, and a new state would be born in its eastern part (the newly formed Armenia included several provinces of present-day Turkey, such as Rize, Erzurum, Mush, and Wacheng, with a territory of about 110,000 square kilometers).

Its territory has also been directly reduced from 540,000 square kilometers, you must know that the territory of the Ottoman Empire before World War I was about 2.1 million square kilometers, which is divided alive.

However, in the face of pressure from the Entente, Sultan Mehmed VI immediately convened a cabinet meeting, and the agreement was adopted. In the face of such harsh terms, there was a backlash from the nationalists and the bourgeoisie. They formed the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, with Kemal as its leader.

In the face of the fierce resistance that broke out in Turkey, Britain and France instigated Greece to start a war against it. As its king, Constantine was originally exiled for opposing Greece's entry into the Entente, but after the death of his son Alexander I, he took back the throne (he died three days after being infected by a monkey bite), and immediately mobilized troops to launch an offensive in the direction of Ankara after receiving the support of the British and French.

At one time, the Greek army advanced the front to the line of the Sakarya River, less than 30 kilometers from Ankara. However, Kemal, as its leader, personally went to the front to command at a critical moment (the Greek king Constantine also went to the front as commander-in-chief).

In the counterattack of the Turkish troops, the Greek army was defeated. The 250,000 casualties in the war were an unforgettable defeat for Greece.

At the same time, the defeat also caused Konstantin to lose the throne, and former Prime Minister Gunnaris and six others were sentenced to death.

After the defeat of Greece, Britain and France saw that they could not force the Turks to accept the Treaty of Sèvres by force, and had no choice but to renegotiate.

In Lausanne, Switzerland, the two sides renegotiated. After some bargaining and negotiations, the outcome of the negotiations was finally agreed upon by various countries (mainly Turkey).

The treaty consists of 143 articles, the main contents of which are:

(1) Declare a formal restoration of peace between the Entente and Turkey as of the date of entry into force of the Treaty.

(2) the Entente recognized Turkey's independence and territorial integrity within the mainland of Asia Minor, and confirmed Turkey's borders from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and from the Mediterranean Sea to Persia (present-day Iran); The regions of Eastern Thrace and Izmir were returned to Turkey, and some minority regions such as Armenia and Kurdistan remained in Turkish ownership; The question of the ownership of Mosul, the oil-producing region, was left to be resolved later (the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1926 assigned the area of Mosul to Iraq, which was administered by the British).

(3) Turkey renounced its territorial claims to Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, which were formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, which had been partitioned by Britain, France, and Italy, and recognized the annexation of Cyprus by Great Britain and the islands of Zozekcanissos (present-day South Spolades) by Italy.

(4) The two sides renounce their claims for compensation for the losses caused by the First World War and the armed intervention of the Allies in Turkey; Turkey repays part of the foreign debt of the former Ottoman Empire; The Contracting Parties announced the abolition of all extraterritoriality and the right of financial and customs supervision in Turkey, and the exercise of customs autonomy in Turkey.

(5) The demilitarization of the strait area, and the declaration by the Contracting States of the principle of freedom of passage and freedom of navigation at sea and in the strait area; The Straits zone shall not be fortified or armed forces shall be stationed and shall be supervised by the International Commission (also known as the Straits Commission).

The newly signed Treaty of Lausanne made Turkey the only defeated country that dared to resist.

As Eder looked at the signed treaty, another thing came to mind. It was after the defeat of Greece that the British and French ambassadors visited him and deliberately tested Romania's willingness to send troops to Turkey. Faced with the temptation of Britain and France, Eder inquired about the price of sending troops. When he heard that Britain and France were unwilling to assign the Straits area to any country, Eder lost interest in continuing the talks.

Yes, Eder had secretly traded arms to Turkey before, but this was based on ambitions for the Straits region. Since Romania cannot obtain the Straits area, what reason does it have to get involved? If you really treat Romania as a thug, you have to give a heart-warming price. Today's Romania is not a pre-World War I country that would go out to help for a small profit.

In fact, he was more concerned about the agreement reached between Germany and Russia in April. Because it was signed in Raballo, Italy, it is also called the Treaty of Raballo. The most important part of the treaty was that Germany recognized the Russian government, and was the first country to do sophobia.

In addition to this, both countries were in favor of canceling all pre-war debts and abandoning the demands made during the war. In return for German recognition, Soviet Russia also signed a very favorable trade concession with Germany.

This made the representatives of the countries who were preparing to negotiate with the Soviet Union in Genoa feel somewhat overwhelmed. This was because the content of the negotiations in Genoa was the recognition and repayment of the foreign debts borrowed by the tsarist government before and during the war. In return, the countries will recognize the government of Soviet Russia.

And now Germany is the first to recognize Soviet Russia, so that the countries cannot form a unity between them, but for the current German move, the countries do not know what to do. France, on the other hand, was harshly critical of Germany's private agreement, which was an affront to other countries and believed that it should be severely punished. And Britain does not agree with this, and who can not know that France is careful about it. As long as Germany is involved, it will inevitably be severely punished.

The disagreement between Britain and France brought the discussion of private action against Germany to a hasty end.

In the end, the Genoa Conference failed to achieve any results, and the talks between the countries and Soviet Russia ended unhappily.