The treaty ended the Turkish-Armenian War that had begun on 12 September 1920, with the Turkish invasion of Western Armenia.

[1][3] Khatisyan's appeals for the inclusion of Surmalu, Mount Ararat, and the medieval capital of Ani, for their significant importance to Armenian culture and history were rejected.

Turkey was to assume control over transportation and communications, thereby reducing Armenia to a Turkish protectorate.

The tenth item in the agreement stated that Armenia renounced the Treaty of Sèvres.

The new borders were ratified by the Treaty of Kars, signed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and, at Soviet Russia's insistence, the three now-Soviet republics of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.