FRANSIZ BASININDA LOZAN BARIŞ KONFERANSI

Abstract

On 30 October 1918, the Armistice of Mudros, between the Entente Alliance and the Ottoman State, officially ended the war between the alliances. Treaty of Sevres, the arrangement of the armistice for peace, was signed on 20 August 1920, as the Entente Alliances proposed, in Sevres, France. Turkish people had evaluated the agreement as an injustice made to themselves, so Turkish people started a War of Independence (Kurtulus Savasi) and signed a much different ceasefire agreement than Armistice of Mudros on October 11, 1922. England, France, Italy and Japan, as Entente Alliance, were assembled in Lausanne, Switzerland to make peace agreement of Mudanya Armistice. The conference, which spanned a two-stage long turn, made impact in various countries, both partial and impartial. Although the conference was decided to start on November 13, 1922, no delegation came to this date, except Turkish delegation. When Turkish delegation arrived in Switzerland, news and comments about the Turkish delegation had begun to take place in French newspapers. The progress of conference had taken part in newspapers from the beginning of conference on 2 November 1920 until 24 July 1923, when the agreement was signed. Numerous news and commentaries were made on the discussions on the conference and on the main disagreements between participating states and their delegations. In this study, major national newspapers were analyzed and French press’s perspective on conference was reflected.