Between Sevres and Lausanne: Aspects of the Asia Minor Tragedy

The treaty signed on July 24, 1923, in Lausanne, Switzerland, nullified and revised the Treaty of Sèvres of August 1920. This marks the final act of a historical process that began in 1914, with the onset of World War I, and culminated in the defeat of the Greek army in August 1922 by the Turkish nationalist forces led by Mustafa Kemal. The Asia Minor Catastrophe was an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for Greeks, Armenians, and other non-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire. The boo...