20 October 1921
The Ankara Agreement with France
After the Battle of Sakarya, France makes peace with Ankara. The agreement of 20 October 1921, signed by Henry Franklin-Bouillon and Yusuf Kemal Bey, ends the fighting in Cilicia and fixes the border with French Syria. Alexandretta stays with Syria under a special regime. French troops leave Adana, Gaziantep (then Antep) and the rest of Cilicia in December 1921 and January 1922. They had already given up Kahramanmaraş and Şanlıurfa (then Maraş and Urfa) in 1920.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha with Henry Franklin-Bouillon, the French negotiator of the Ankara Agreement, İzmir, 28 September 1922Wikimedia Commons, Unknown author, Public domain (Atatürk Fransız diplomat Franklin Bouillon ile, İzmir, 28 Eylül 1922.png)
The Treaty of Kars of 13 October 1921 with the Soviet republics of the Caucasus settles the eastern border. Only the Greek front remains.
Sources
- Andrew Mango, Atatürk (1999).
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