Now at last, with the Near East situation rapidly threatening to get out of hand, the allies proposed a new peace conference. This met at Lausanne in November 1922, three days after the last of the Sultans had been deposed and had fled to British protection at Malta.
At the Lausanne Conference Kemal showed himself a statesman as well a soldier" He demanded that Turkey be regarded as a political, racial, and religious unit, and that the Straits be unconditionally restored, with recognition by Turkey of the rights of interested states to freedom of commerce between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
The conference dragged on for months, but a treaty was eventually gued in July 1923, which granted all demands except her claim sion of the Mosul oil region At last, in October 1923, Kemal found himself firmly in saddle, Turkey was proclaimed a republic, and he was elected its President.
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