The Conference of Lausanne was a 1922--23 peace conference held in Lausanne, in order to write a new treaty with Turkey, which, under the new government of Kemal Pasha, did not recognise the Treaty of Sèvres. This treaty restored Thrace, the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, and Smyrna to full Turkish sovreignty, and diminished foreign zones of influence and capitulations, without any need for reparations.
The Bosporus, however, remained demilitarized and subject to an international convention. This was to be a major issue that led to the Montreux Convention. Further points of the conference involved an agreement between Turkey and Greece, concerning compulsory exchange of minority ethnic groups.
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits
The 1936 Montreux Convention came about due to the Turkish desire to remilitarize the Straits, which under the terms of the LausanneConvention had been demilitarized.
The Montreux Convention is still in effect, with Turkey the sole authority with the legal power to enforce the Convention.
The The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) is an international movement formed for the purpose of uniting Christian denominations and organizations to evangelize the world before the year A.D. In 1974, 2,400 Protestant and Catholic leaders from 150 nations attended the Lausanne Congress which was convened by a committee headed by Billy Graham.
The Lausanne Covenant is a 3,000-word document that was written and signed by 2,300 of the attendees of the 1974 Lausanne Congress.
The meeting, based on the 1974 Lausanne Covenant continued a commitment to carry the Christian Gospel to all corners of the world and represented a renewal of the Covenant by these Christian leaders.
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