The Treaty of Sevres was forced upon the decaying Ottoman Empire by Britain and France

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On August 10, 1920 AD, the Treaty of Sevres was forced upon the decaying Ottoman Empire by Britain and France, stripping it of 80% of its territory. The remaining European parts of the Empire were handed over to Greece and several islands to Italy, forcing hundreds of thousands of Muslims to leave their ancestral homes and cross into the Asian parts.
At the same time, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine were placed under British mandate, and Syria and Lebanon under French mandate, while Hijaz with its holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resort of Ta’ef and the Red Sea ports of Jeddah and Yanbu, declared an independent kingdom under the British agent, Sharif Hussain. Armenia also got a share of Turkish territory while a part of Asia Minor was further given to Greece as Ionia.
Istanbul and its surroundings were declared demilitarized, while the ancient Seljuq capital of Konya was placed under Italian zone of influence. The plan was to separate the Kurdish areas as well, but was deferred for the time being. This harsh and humiliating treatment led to the uprising of the Turkish people, and the Turkish army soon drove away the Greek occupiers from parts of Asia Minor and the surroundings of Istanbul on the European side.
This forced the western powers to draft a new treaty in 1923, which has fixed the present boundaries of modern Turkey, although in 1937, the French illegally handed over to Turkey the Syrian territories of Iskenderun and Antakya (Antioch), which Turkey calls Hatay Province, but whose sovereignty Damascus has never recognized, calling it part of Syria.
Meanwhile, in 1925, the Kingdom of Hijaz was occupied by Wahhabi brigands from the Nejd with the blessings of the British who in 1932 formally installed their agent, Abdul-Aziz Aal-Saud as king of the pseudo country called Saudi Arabia. Abdel-Aziz consequently seized parts of Yemen and occupied the Shi’ite Muslim sheikhdoms of the eastern parts of the Arabian Peninsula on the oil-rich Persian Gulf coast.