Lausanne Diary

Many things have been said about Lausanne.

In the words of İsmet Pasha, the Lausanne Conference was the "great test". It was "a great test in which our nation was invited to the middle of Europe." Türkiye passed this test successfully.

The Treaty of Lausanne "determined the outcome of the War of Independence."

This Treaty was "a treaty that is not closely or remotely similar to the treaties we saw after the General War." Other agreements were agreements imposed and dictated by the victorious states to the defeated ones. The Treaty of Lausanne was an agreement prepared and signed through difficult negotiations between equal parties.

Adherence to the rule of "The one who writes history must remain faithful to the one who makes history" makes Bilâl N. Şimşir's latest work, Lausanne Diary, valuable, as well as all his works. The book, which is a documentary chronology of the 1922-1923 Lausanne Conference and the Peace Process, documents and reveals this great event of Recent Turkish History day by day.

Rumbold, the British High Commissioner in Istanbul, said, "Turkey is going to Lausanne with the National Pact in one hand and the sword in the other"; "The Treaty of Sevres is dead, the Allies now have to struggle with the National Pact."
Lord Curzon was going to Lausanne with a memorandum that was a "complete negative" of the National Pact.

Turkey's National Pact and the British memorandum would clash fiercely in Lausanne. It seemed that İsmet Pasha's job at the Lausanne Conference would be difficult, very difficult. Opposite him were the three great powers and their allies, seven big and small powers, who had agreed to struggle with the National Pact.

İsmet Pasha served "in the armchair" in Lausanne. On the second day of his arrival in Lausanne, on November 14, Pasha wrote the following note in his notebook: "Phone from Rome to Paris. Armenians were prepared for assassination..."



Number of Pages: 736

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Bilgi Publishing House

Number of Pages: 736

First Print Year: 2012

Language Turkish