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10 August 1920
TREATY OF SEVRES
SECTION III
KURDISTAN
Article 62

 

 

 

 


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A Commission sitting in Constantinople and composed of three members appointed by the British, French and Italian Governments respectively shall draft within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty a scheme of local autonomy for the predominantly Kurdish areas lying east of the Euphrates, south of the southern boundary of Armenia as it may be hereafter determined, and north of the frontier of Turkey with Syria and Mesopotamia, as defined in Article 27,II (2) and (3).
If unanimity cannot be secured on any question, it will be referred by the members of the Commission to their respective Governments. The scheme shall contain full safe guards for the protection of the Assyro-Chaldeans and other racial or religious minorities within these areas, and with this object a Commission composed of British, French, Italian and Kurdish representatives shall visit the spot to examine and decide what rectifications, if any should be made in the Turkish frontier where, under the provisions of the present Treaty, that frontier coincides with that of Persia.
Article 63
The Turkish Government hereby agrees to accept and execute the decisions of both the Commissions mentioned in Article 62 within three months from their communication to the said Government.
Article 64
If within one year from the coming into force of the present Treaty the Kurdish people within the areas defined in Article 62 shall address themselves to the Council oft League of Nations in such a manner as to show that a majority of the population of these areas desires independence from Turkey, and if the Council then considers that these peoples are capable of such independence and recommends that it should be granted to them, Turkey herby agrees to execute such a recommendation, and to renounce all rights and title over these areas.
The detailed provisions for such renunciation will form the subjekt of a separate agreement between the Principal Allied Powers and Turkey.
If and when such renunciation takes place, no objection will be raisen by the Principal Allied Powers to the voluntary adhesion to such an Independent Kurdish State of the Kurds inhabiting that part of Kurdistan which has hitherto been included in Mosul vilayet.