Italo-Turkish Treaty (1932)
The Italian-Turkish treaty of 1932 , signed in Ankara on January 4, 1932 by the Italian envoy Pompeo Aloisi and the Turkish foreign minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras , resolved a conflict that had arisen after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne . The point of contention was the sovereignty of several islands and waters off the coast of Anatolia and the island of Kastellorizo , which had belonged to Italy since 1921.
The agreement stipulated that the islands within the port of Kastellorizo, like the islands of Rho and Strongili, would belong to Italy, while the rest of the area would go to Turkey.
The Italian government recognized that Kara Ada should be added to Turkey off Bodrum .
In an appendix that was added in December 1932, the border between the Turkish coast and the then Italian archipelago of the Dodecanese was adjusted. From November 1943 until the end of the Second World War in May 1945, the islands were in German hands, until 1947 in British hands. Only then was the archipelago ceded to Greece. The treaty played a role during a Greek-Turkish conflict over the Aegean Sea in 1996. Turkey considered the status of many islands as not yet settled.