What are the current obligations of Treaty of Lausanne?

Question

The Turkish President Erdogan and his followers are always talking about that they should update the Treaty of Lausanne or even they are claiming that it will expire on 2023 and they are saying that the country will be free from certain obligations.

They have pretty wild claims and I didn't really tap in the full list of claims. But, they are mostly talking about the usage of the valuable natural resources like oil, gas or boron (I am not sure if boron is valuable as they claim though). More wilder, they are saying there will be a referendum in Mosul and Kirkuk to ask if they want to be part of Turkey. Really wild claims!

But, what I am curious and I want to ask in this platform is like this. Are there, really, any obligations of the treaty that are still in effect? I know that Bosphorus and Dardanelles are kind of international waters under the supervision of Turkish authority. But, is there anything else that Turkey can't do due to the agreement? If there is, is there really an expiry date for the obligations?

This was an ongoing narrative from the islamic party. Moreover; recently, Erdogan has talked about the revisiting the treaty again when he was talking with the Greek journalist. Turkish T24 Newspaper Article

I highly suspect that this is just a internal politics BS like most of his other claims. Yet, I would like to be enlightened from an expert worked in this area.

Edit:

There is a historian/journalist Murat Bardakci who had written about the subject and he said the claims are completely BS. But, I want to get a fresh opinion. The article is, unfortunately, in Turkish and the Google translate doesn't work well for Turkish.

Answer 1

Of course, many stipulations of the treaty are still in effect. The borders it delimited remains the international border of today. The Republic of Turkey continues to be recognised internationally. The ancient capitulations are still abolished. The forced population exchanges have happened and are not being reversed.

Control of the Turkish Straits, as you mentioned, was regulated as a demilitarised zone in an annex to the Treaty of Lusanne. That Convention, however, have long been superseded by the Montreux Convention of 1936.

So basically the fantastical claims are no more than a conspiracy theory, concocted variously as a looming threat or as an excuse for real or perceived difficulties. The Treaty of Lausanne does not have an expiry date. The text of the treaty can be read here.

Answer 2

The Treaty of Lausanne, like any other international treatiy, is valid for a hundred years. But the thing is, after a hundred years, if both sides that are involved in the treaty have not came up with a new treaty, the old one is still considered as valid.

I am from Turkey and even though I oppose him, I don't think that Erdoğan is stupid enough to believe that he will be free from the obligations of the treaty.

This propaganda is for pump up the the project "Kanalistanbul", because when this project first came up, the opposing media in Turkey declared that "No one will use this canal because it is free to pass through Bosphorus". So they tried to pull off a lie like that. Also the project will have disastrous effects on Istanbul.