In the First Balkan War, the coalition of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro defeated the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans lost nearly all their European possessions, save for a small territory around the Sea of Marmara by the Treaty of London.[2] The Ottomans however were able to recover Eastern Thrace during the Second Balkan War.[3] Although peace talks between Bulgaria and her other neighbours were held in Bucharest, the Ottoman Empire was not represented there and conducted separate negotiations which led to the Treaty of Constantinople.
Under the terms of the abortive Treaty of Sèvres, Turkey was to cede almost all of Eastern Thrace to Greece, but the proposed territorial changes were negated by Turkey's victory over Greece in the War of Independence and the subsequent Treaty of Lausanne, which reaffirmed the borders established by the Treaty of Constantinople and the Bulgarian-Ottoman convention.
^Sina Akşin: Çağdaş Türkiye 1908–1980, Cem Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2008 ISBN978-975-406-566-4 p. 50
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"Treaty of Peace Between Bulgaria and Turkey, Signed at Constantinople September 16/29, 1913". The American Journal of International Law. VIII (1, Supplement, Official Documents): 27–45. January 1914. doi:10.2307/2212404. JSTOR2212404. S2CID246006453.