War of Tripoli 1911:Treaty of Ouchs

 Italian diplomats made the decision to seize the opportunity to secure a favourable peace agreement. The First Treaty of Lausanne, also known as Treaty of Ouchy to distinguish it from the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, was signed by Italy and the Ottoman Empire on October 18, 1912, in Ouchy, Switzerland (the Second Treaty of Lausanne).

The following were the treaty's principal clauses:

1. All military personnel from Trablus and Benghazi vilayets in Libya would be withdrawn by the Ottomans in exchange for Italy giving up its control of Rhodes and the other Aegean islands.

2. A naib (regent), a kadi (judge), and Trablus and Benghazi vilayets would each have a particular status, and the Caliph would be represented by each of them.

3. The Ottomans would consult the Italian authorities prior to appointing the kadis and naibs.The costs of these kadis and naibs would be covered by the Ottoman government.

However, further events prevented the Dodecanese from going back to Turkey. Just before the treaty was signed, the First Balkan War started. While its main soldiers were engaged in a bloody battle to defend its remaining holdings in the Balkans, Turkey was in no position to retake the islands. It was implicitly agreed that the Dodecanese would stay under neutral Italian administration until the end of hostilities between the Greeks and the Ottomans, after which the islands would revert to Ottoman sovereignty, to prevent a Greek invasion of the islands.

The islands were never returned to the Ottoman Empire as a result of Turkey's ongoing involvement in the Balkan Wars and the subsequent outbreak of World War I, in which Italy and Turkey once more found themselves on opposing sides. The Dodecanese continued to be governed by Italy until 1947, when, following their defeat in World War II, the islands were given to Greece. Turkey gave up its claims to the islands in the Treaty of Lausanne.