Turkish Victory - 22-30 August 1922 - THE HISTORICAL FACTS

Ottoman Empire fought the WWI on the same side with Germany and ended up signing the Mondros Cease-fire Treaty on 30 October 1918 with the Allied Powers. Taking advantage of the weak Ottoman Government in Istanbul, the Allied Forces started to occupy parts of Anatolia; South Eastern Anatolia by the British and French, Southern Anatolia by the Italians and Istanbul, the capital of the Empire, by all the Allied countries. Supported by the Allied Forces, Greece started to occupy Western Anatolia by landing on Izmir on 15 May 1919. As the Ottoman Government was unable and unwilling to resist these occupations, people started to form resistance groups under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), the legendary hero of the Gallipoli War. Kemal started to tour parts of Anatolia not yet under the control of the Allied Forces, organised "people's conventions" and elections. The inaugural meeting of the elected representatives was held on 23 April 1920 and Kemal was elected as the Speaker of the House and the Head of the newly formed Government. The main task of the government was to form a regular army to stop the advancing Greek Army. Guns and ammunition were in short supply as the Ottoman Army was under the control of the Allied Forces. The newly formed Turkish Army had its first test in the 1st Battle of Inonu on 10 January 1921 which ended with a victory despite being outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy. This is followed by the victories in the 2nd Battle of Inonu on 31 March 1921 and the Battle of Sakarya, which lasted for 22 days from 23 August to 13 September 1921. These victories forced the Greek Army to change tactics to be defensive rather than offensive.

Due to the recent battles the gun power of the Turkish Army was extremely low and therefore Kemal had to wait for another year for his final offensive on the Greek Army. The "Great Attack" of the Turkish Army started on 26 August 1922 and finished with a victory on 30 August 1922 during which the majority of the Greek Army was annihilated. The final battle on 30 August is also known as the "Battle of the Commander-in-Chief" and 30 August is celebrated as Victory Day in Turkiye and within the Turkish communities throughout the World.

The occupation of Anatolia by the Greek Army has ended on 9 September 1922 when Turkish Army entered Izmir. This resulted the collapse of Lloyd George's "Greeks in Anatolia" policy and forced him to resign who was replaced by Bonar Law as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain. Lord Kinross, the biographer of Ataturk, said: "The Turk, considered a rebel, after three years of struggle was able to force the collapse of the British Government and oust its prominent Prime Minister. The romantic man faded away in front of the realist man".

Having the upper hand after victory, Ataturk forced the occupying forces of England, France, Italy and Greece to sign the Cease-fire Treaty of Mudanya on 11 October 1922. According to the British historian Arnold Toynbee: "The Treaty of Mudanya, under the pressure of Kemalists, meant the surrender of the Allied Forces".

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[poutsas69]

you are rediculus turkomogol pigs

you burned our city smyrna

[vatancephesi1]

First of all turks are not mongol, it's clear that you don't know history.

Greeks killed thousands of turks in anatolia so we fucked you. Sorry.

And it's not smyrna. It's İzmir.

Learn your history.

[axellerose1]

there are two great cities in india...the capital mumbai and new delhi...great two places.. but you will need to change your two sim cards for your mobile when you get there..axelle_rose

[ivandivandakor]

smyrna is not a greek city also why we burn our own city? your ancestors burned the city while fleeing like chicken.also Atatürk said we revenge the troy.greece people must thank us because turks teached them how to swim hahahaha.

[murattk22]

@jkotsa Also again I will stress if the young Turkish republic armed forces had the intent of genocide then why stop at eastern Thrace? Turkey could have easily invaded mainland Greece before any protest from the entente. Sorry but Ataturk in fact prevented any future imperial style of thinking in Turks by shifting the national policy to being friendly with neighbor countries. This is why your first pm after the declaration of Turk independence put forward Ataturk name for the nobel peace prize

[murattk22]

@jkotsa You do realize that large amount of Greek left anatolia (Modern day Turkey) for the newly independent Greek republic after 1821. Furthermore there was a large population exchange between Greece & Turkey after 1922. Im sorry but the Greeks were never a majority in Izmir & how could they be? It is the home turf of the Turks for over a thousand years. Please research the documents of the age without bias and you will see that Greeks were not victims of genocide or a majority in west Turkey.

[murattk22]

@jkotsa I am not denying that Greeks lived in the area, in fact I love ancient Greek mythology, especially how Ares & the furies can be seen as an almost seperate & rebellious pantheon to Olympus. I would ask the same thing to you about the Turks in western Thrace. Why deny them their basic human rights such as consul access & the right to select their own religious leaders? Why do Greek troops in 2010 ind day march chant racist slogans? Just as your news media reported "this isnt the middle age

[deeptuber109]

@jkotsa Why should Turks burn their own city just at the time of saving it from aggressors? Turkish soldiers were eating only a piece of dry bread a day, Country was destroyed east to west, north to south by Armenian, British, Greek, French, Italian occupiers, hundreds thousands of Turkish people masacred by those all over Turkey, lack of money at peak point, desease, poverty killing people.. and in all that Turkish army burns their own city. Go get some fresh air to pick up yr lost mind.

[deeptuber109]

@jkotsa Miss Mills, Mrs. King Birge.. American missiories.. Are thes your historical sources to prove. Aa bravo!! You can not find any better source than those fanatic biased Christian lunatics.. so called missionaries. We know from our sources when they heard mighty Christian Greek army was defeated and being wiped out to the sea, people witnessed they run the church and gone into crisis.. taering their dresses, shouting, crying "Why don't you help us Lord, why you leave the cross alone?"

[jkotsa]

@murattk22 for the same reason the turk, burnt down all christian churches and schools and homes in the pontos area around the black sea region to eradicate any traces to history. As the once famous stalin put it who remembers the jewish genoside by the nazis.

[jkotsa]

@murattk22 So your denying that Greeks lived in the pontos area (along the black sea coast since the 7th century bc). I dont know were your getting your information from, can you please state that. Currently there are some 300,000 greek pontians living in turkey. Why do you deny them still there basic human writes to express their cultural heritage? Answer me this. Most are so scared to talk, because they will face back lash from turks.

[murattk22]

@jkotsa Genocide requires an intent to exterminate. When Ataturk had reclaimed Izmir they could have easily continued to advance & taken over all of Greece and the allied powers tired of fighting for so many years would have been unable to intervene. If genocide was the actual intent of the Turkish army then why stop at western Thrace? Be thankful that Ataturk put an end to the imperial age of the Turk.