From the Brest Litovsk Treaty to the Armistice of Mudros:

History of Non-Compliance with Conventions

Summary

The period from the Brest Litovsk Treaty of March 3, 1918, to Mudros Armistice made on October 30 of the same year, was distinctive as a time when Ottoman Empire consistently sabotaged them. Such an attitude had been equally aplied to profitable Brest conditions, as well as to requirements of Mudros, laid and formally approved after the Turkish defeat in the First World War. Mudros requirements had not been backed by sufficient military force, therefore, on July 25, 1919, they were annulled and namely put on the rocks on the railway Kars - Erzerum, when a rockfall had been arranged on its ferry between Zivin and Karaurgan, and a train with war surplus was attacked, though weapons were taken out of the country under Allies' surveillance. This assault had been substantiated bu the formal refusal of the Turkish Command authority to disarm. Although subsequent negotiations with the Sultan Government brought on August 10, 1920, to conclusion of the Sevres Treaty, Turkish Nationalists, who were acting in conditions of dual power, put an end on July 25, 1919, to the Mudros Armistice. From this day on, they continually gain in scope and jeopardy of their demands. //-39