Convention between Italy and Turkey, 1932

The Italian -Turkish Treaty of 1932, which was signed in Ankara on 4 January 1932 by the Italian Minister Pompeo Aloisi and Turkish Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras, sparked a conflict that had arisen after the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. Point of contention was the sovereignty of several islands and waters off the coast of Anatolia and the island Kastellorizo ​​, which belonged to Italy since 1921.

The agreement stipulated that the islands within the harbor of Kastellorizo ​​, as the islands of Rho and Strongili Italy should include while the rest of the area went to Turkey.

The Italian government recognized that Kara Ada should be slammed in Bodrum Turkey.

In an appendix, which was annexed in December 1932, the border between the Turkish coast and the then Italian Dodecanese Islands was adjusted. From November 1943 until the end of World War II in May 1945, the islands were in German until 1947 in British hands. Only then the archipelago was ceded to Greece. During a Greek-Turkish conflict over the Aegean Sea in 1996, the contract played a role. Turkey held the status of many islands not yet regulated.