Ankara, Treaty of (1930)
ANKARA, TREATY OF (1930)
Treaty of friendship between Greece and Turkey, signed on 30 October 1930.
The Treaty of Ankara affirmed the boundaries between Turkey and Greece, settled the property claims of repatriated populations, and established naval parity in the eastern Mediterranean. The rapprochement was due particularly to the exceptional efforts of Greek prime minister Eleutherios Venizelos and Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to normalize the historically problematic relations between the two countries. Turkish-Greek relations continued without any major conflict until the Cyprus Crisis (1954). The Ankara treaty also influenced Turkey's accession to the League of Nations (1932) and the establishment of the Balkan Pact (1934).
see also atatÜrk, mustafa kemal.
Bibliography
Bahceli, Tozun. Greek-Turkish Relations since 1955. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis. "The 1930 Greek-Turkish Naval Protocol." Diplomacy and Statecraft 9, no. 1 (1998): 89–111.
Elizabeth Thompson
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