The Peace Treaty of Sèvres

Turkey recognises that all treaties, conventions or arrangements which she concluded with Russia,or with any State or Government of which the territory previously formed a part of Russia, beforeAugust 1, 1914, or after that date until the coming into force of the present Treaty, or withRoumania after August 15, 1916, until the coming into force of the present Treaty, are and remainabrogated.ARTICLE 278.Should an Allied Power, Russia, or a State or Government of which the territory formerlyconstituted a part of Russia, have been forced since August 1, 1914, by reason of militaryoccupation or by any other means or for any other cause, to grant or to allow to be granted by theact of any public authority, concessions, privileges and favours of any kind to Turkey or to aTurkish national, such concessions, privileges and favours are ipso facto annulled by the presentTreaty.No claims or indemnities which may result from this annulment shall be charged against the AlliedPowers or the Powers, States, governments or public authorities which are released from theirengagements by this Article.ARTICLE 279.From the coming into force of the present Treaty, Turkey undertakes to give the Allied Powers andtheir nationals the benefit ipso facto of the rights and advantages of any kind which she has grantedby treaties, conventions or arrangements to non-belligerent States or their nationals since August 1,1914, until the coming into force of the present Treaty, so long as those treaties, conventions orarrangements remain in force.ARTICLE 280.Those of the High Contracting Parties who have not yet signed, or who have signed but not yetratified, the Opium Convention signed at the Hague on January 23, 1912, agree to bring the saidConvention into force, and for this purpose to enact the necessary legislation without delay and inany case within a period of twelve months from the coming into force of the present Treaty.Furthermore, they agree that ratification of the present Treaty should in the case of Powers whichhave not yet ratified the Opium Convention be deemed in all respects equivalent to the ratificationof that Convention and to the signature of the Special Protocol which was opened at The Hague inaccordance with the resolutions adopted by the Third Opium Conference in 1914 for bringing thesaid Convention into force.For this purpose the Government of the French Republic will communicate to the Government ofthe Netherlands a certified copy of the Protocol of the deposit of ratifications of the present Treaty,and will invite the Government of the Netherlands to accept and deposit the said certified copy as ifit were a deposit of ratifications of the Opium Convention and a signature of the AdditionalProtocol of 1914.SECTION III .INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.ARTICLE 281.65