Edited sentence: However, the Turkish government, under nationalist leader Kemal Ataturk, rapidly renounced the Treaty.In 1918, an independent Republic of Armenia was declared.In collusion with the newly-created Soviet Union, the Turks invaded Armenia and reconquered six of the former western Ottoman provinces granted to Armenia under the Treaty, along with the Armenian provinces of Kars and Ardahan.President Woodrow Wilson was granted the right to draw up the boundaries of a new Armenian nation, formalized at the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.[[Link title]]