Without Lausanne Turkey as we know it today would simply not exist. It was here that İsmet İnönü saved the day, and Turkey could finally leave the disaster of the First World War and the Greek invasion behind and regain its independence. The story of the Treaty of Lausanne is a fascinating one, and the still gorgeous Grande Dame of Lausanne hotels, the Beau Rivage, displays black and white photographs of the event that took place in its ballroom on July 24, 1924.
