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Events on Monday 20 July 1936 1
1936Montreux ConventionTurkey regains control of the StraitsThe Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits was signed in Switzerland. It returned control of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles to Turkey and allowed the country to remilitarise them. It also guaranteed civilian ships free passage in peacetime.