The Turks simultaneously began a diplomatic assault on the charter passed at the Treaty of Sevres. Unwilling to recognize the borders the treaty set, the Kemalist government used their oil reserves to strong arm the world powers back to the negotiating table.

At the Lausanne Conference of 1922, the Turks renegotiated the terms of their World War 1 surrender and refused any discussion on the “Armenian question”. Turkey regained nearly all of the territory granted to Armenia in 1920 and was under no obligation to stop their violent campaign against the defenseless Armenian population. The Armenians accepted a treaty created from Turkish and Russian negotiations, and joined the USSR. Thus, the Treaty of Moscow (March 16, 1921) and the Treaty of Kars (October 13, 1921) formed the boundaries of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.