Smyrna 1922 - the real face of turkey

"The Great Fire of Smyrna is the name commonly given to the fire that ravaged Izmir/Smyrna from 13 to 17 September 1922. Turkish armed forces systematically burned the city and killed Greek and Armenian inhabitants. This is based on extensive eyewitness evidence from Western troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats/relief workers based at Smyrna and Turkish sources." - www.Wikipedia.org

David Magarian discovered this 16mm edited nitrate film by chance hidden in his grandmother's apartment in NYC for 60 years. Luckily he transfered it to digital before it completely disintegrated & we truly thank him for it.

Davids grandfather, George Magarian, was born in 1895, educated at the American College at Konia, Turkey and, later, served as director of the Konya YMCA, filmed Smyrna, Turkey, immediately after it's genocidal destruction.

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[Erdemfm]

greeks murdered 300,000 civil turkish people while they retreat after beated in battle.Fucking criminals

[teomina82]

@THUGBANGER36 Thank you :) Lack of education they are trying to rule the world by You Tube.. Go to trial and open up your hidden archives in open trial with historians.. Why dont you people go along with that? Huh,you fucking lieyin , treotors all of you, shame ad burn in hell!!

[teomina82]

Hey moron, that city during that period was attacked by greeks and your fucked up treator armenians... so if it started to burn it sure was because of your kinds stupid actions... Stop this bullshit, you wanna present something dont talk like it was your country was getting attacked and burned down,, Izmir was and still is a turkish city...

[FrescatiStory]

I do hope that Europe will wake up again.

[AndrewStergiou]

This documentary film is a YMCA relief film short of 10:07 minutes composed of original vintage footage from the period of 1922, it is of specific historical value those who deny its importance are merely deluding themselves in what is actively produced as propaganda by mostly right-wing Turkish military and political elements weither it represents the old regime or the new one.

[AuntieKhrist]

Ismail Enver Pasha, Ahmed Cemal Pasha, Mehmed Talât Bey, and a host of others were convicted by the Turkish court and condemned to death for "the extermination and destruction of the Armenians."

[AuntieKhrist]

The Turkish court concluded that the leaders of the Young Turk government were guilty of murder. "This fact has been proven and verified." It maintained that the genocidal scheme was carried out with as much secrecy as possible. That a public facade was maintained of "relocating" the Armenians. That they carried out the killing by a secret network. That the decision to eradicate the Armenians was not a hasty decision, but "the result of extensive and profound deliberations."

[AuntieKhrist]

Only one Turkish government, that of Damad Ferit Pasha, has ever recognized the Armenian genocide. In fact, that Turkish government held war crimes trials and condemned to death the major leaders responsible.

[AuntieKhrist]

Morgenthau's successor as Ambassador to Turkey, Abram Elkus, cabled the U.S. State Department in 1916 that the Young Turks were continuing an ". . . unchecked policy of extermination through starvation, exhaustion, and brutality of treatment hardly surpassed even in Turkish history."

[AuntieKhrist]

Henry Morgenthau Sr., the neutral American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent a cable to the U.S. State Department in 1915: "Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses [sic] it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion."