French–Armenian Agreement (1916)

The French-Armenian Agreement of October 27, 1916 was the political and military accord regarding the support of Armenian nationalist (Armenian national liberation movement) on the side of the allies in World War I.

Details

The agreement was reported to the French Armenian Legion was planned under command of General Edmund Allenby, however extend to original agreement, Armenians fought in Palestine, Syria. Finally, after the armistice of Mudros in Cilicia. The from the agreement, it took less than a month to the official decision regarding the establishment of the Armenian Legion November 15, 1916 in Paris. Support won the plaudits of Clemenceau’s government and its Entente allies.^[3]

The parties agreed to the following:

The aim of creating the Legion was to allow Armenians' contribution to the liberation of Cilicia region in Ottoman Empire and help them to realize their national aspirations of creating a state in that region.
The Legion was to fight only Ottoman Empire and only in Cilicia.
The Legion was to become the core of a planned future Armenian Army.

Notes

^ HR.SYS 2884/14 Belge No: 1
^ Stanley Elphinstone Kerr. The Lions of Marash: personal experiences with American Near East Relief, 1919-1922 p. 30
^ Richard G. Hovannisian, Armenia on the Road to Independence,' 1967

World War I treaties

During the war	Sykes–Picot St.-Jean-de-Maurienne French–Armenian Damascus Protocol London Brest-Litovsk Ukraine Batum

Paris Peace Conference	Versailles Saint-Germain-en-Laye Neuilly-sur-Seine Trianon Sèvres

Aftermath

Rapallo (1920) Tartu (1920) Warsaw Riga (1920) Suwałki Alexandropol Moscow Riga (1921) Tartu (1921) Cilicia Ankara Kars Lausanne Rapallo (1922) Territories of the Former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Italian Reparation Payments Sino-German Peace Treaty

Montreux	Regime of the Turkish Straits Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt

British (Egypt)	Denmark Greece Norway Sweden Portugal

See also: Fourteen Points
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

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French–Armenian Agreement (1916)