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| '''Turkish Republic of Western Thrace''', ({{lang-tr|Batı Trakya Türk Cumhuriyeti}}) was a Turkish republic that existed from ] until ], ]. The state was created during the ] and was later conquered by the Bulgarian army, namely by General Lazarof. A treaty (]) was signed between Bulgaria and the ] on ], 1913. This treaty ended the existance of the Turkish Republic of Western Thrace. | '''Turkish Republic of Western Thrace''', ({{lang-tr|Batı Trakya Türk Cumhuriyeti}}) was a Turkish republic that existed from ] until ], ]. The state was created during the ] and was later conquered by the Bulgarian army, namely by General Lazarof. A treaty (]) was signed between Bulgaria and the ] on ], 1913. This treaty ended the existance of the Turkish Republic of Western Thrace. | ||
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Turkish Republic of Western Thrace, (Template:Lang-tr) was a Turkish republic that existed from July 28 until October 30, 1913. The state was created during the Balkan Wars and was later conquered by the Bulgarian army, namely by General Lazarof. A treaty (Istanbul Convention) was signed between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire on October 29, 1913. This treaty ended the existance of the Turkish Republic of Western Thrace.
Overview
Capital: Gümülcine (Greek: Κομοτηνή, Komotini), now in Greece
President: Hoca Salih Efendi
Territory: All Western Thrace (Area surrounded by: Maritsa (Turkish: Meriç, Greek: Evros) in the east, Mesta River (Nestos) of Macedonia in the west, Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria in north and the Aegean Sea in the south. Total territory encompassed was 8.578 Km².
Army: Standing force of 29,170, largely infantry. Commander was Süleyman Askeri
As soon as independence was declared, the government of the Turkish Republic of Western Thrace determined the borders of the country, put up the new flags on the official buildings, commissioned a national anthem, raised an army, published its own stamps and passports. It also prepared the budget of the new country and symbolically started publishing a newspaper named Istiklal (Independence). The Ottoman Laws and Regulations were adopted without any change and the cases started to be heard by the Court of Western Thrace.
Bulgaria, after a brief period of control over the area following the Istanbul Convention, passed the sovereighty of Western Thrace to Greece at the end of the World War I, when Greece entered the war against the Central Powers. The Muslim population of Western Thrace was excluded from the population exchange of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, and posses a legal minority status in Greece.
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