Welcome to the website of the Lotus Project! The Lotus Project marks the centenary of the collision between the S.S. Lotus and the S.S. Bozkurt in the early hours of 2 August 1926 and the subsequent case between France and Turkey before the Permanent Court of International Justice.

On this website, we collect information, files and reflections related to the ships, their passengers, the cases and the events that we are organizing.

The Lotus Project is based at Lund University’s Faculty of Law and managed by Valentin Jeutner and Serde Atalay. Federica Paddeu (Cambridge) and Daniel Peat (Leiden) are also part of the team.