The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres between the Allied Powers and Turkey, which ended World War I for
Turkey, can undoubtedly be considered one of the most important international treaties of the last
century, although it was never ratified. Aiming at the reorganization of the Middle East, it laid the
foundation for the British Empire to reach the peak of its territorial expansion shortly after its
signing.The Treaty of Sèvres has long received little attention from German-language historical
research, which is probably due to the fact that no complete translation of the Treaty of Sèvres into
German has been available to date. The present work is intended to provide such a translation. On
the other hand, the present work is also intended to make the history of the genesis of the peace
treaty with Turkey accessible to a wide audience on the basis of new, evaluated archival material
and selected literature. Finally, the present work attempts to place the Treaty of Sèvres in a context
with the other Paris Suburban Treaties - first and foremost with the Treaty of Versailles and the
Treaty of St. Germain concerning Austria - by analyzing the relevant treaty provisions of the
original French text, thus highlighting its special features.
Dr. Miriam Gassner, LL.M., is a research fellow at the Institute for Constitutional Law and Legal
Theory at the University of Freiburg i.B. and a lecturer at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional
History at the University of Vienna.