The city of Aydin burned by the Greeks

1922 600 people were killed by Greeks with bayonets in Alaşehir. 4,000 homes burned, people's belongings robbed

Greek Vandalism

Çakal village of which the houses were burned.
The 5 september 1922.
the town of kassaba burned with its 5000 houses. Zeynep, the only girl who escaped the Greek vandalism of Çakal village

640,000 Turkish civilians were massacred by the Greek army. After the occupation of Izmir on 14/15 May 1919, Greek troops massacred part of the Turkish population of the city. During this massacre, Greek gangs were roaming the streets.

According to the Entente States ' sources, between 300 and 400 Turks were killed on 15 May 1919. As the Greek army advanced into Anatolia, the Turks living in the region faced massacres, rapes and destruction.

Harold Armstrong, a British military official, reported that the Greek army had gone from Izmir to Anatolia, massacring, burning, looting and raping civilians.

British historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote that after the Greek occupation of Izmir on May 15, 1919, "atrocities"were carried out in an organized manner.

Toynbee noted that they witnessed the persecution carried out by the Greeks in the areas of Izmit,Yalova and Gemlik,and that houses were looted and burned in these areas. M. Marjorie Housepian wrote that 4,000 Muslims were killed in Greek-occupied Izmir. cities burned by Greeks

reported,that the Greeks killed the Turks in Akhisar and Gördes and burned the towns.Henry Ford states that in the region from Izmir to Konya, Greek soldiers very often raped Turkish women. In Eskisehir and Afyonkarahisar,Greek soldiers committed violence against the Turkish pple

Johannes Kolmodin states that Greek troops burned 250 villages while withdrawing, leading to the Izmir fire of 1922. Kolmodin reports that in some places, villagers were stuffed into mosques and burned. On February 14, 1922, he filled mosques in the villages of Karatepe+

and the people of two nearby villages, which were connected to Izmir at that time, and then burned mosques using oil and killed civilians consisting of women, children and men.

5 September 1922... 5000 houses burned by Greeks in Turgutlu

As the Greek army retreated from western Anatolia,it practiced the tactic of burning and destroying."The retreating Greek Army adopted a policy of incineration and brutality against all the defenseless Turks who stood in front of it," said Nettleton Fisher.

In the Aegean region and Central Anatolia, those who support the Greek occupation, killing, wounding, rape, extortion, etc. he carried out and massacres were seen in places.

As the Greek army retreated, it took care not to leave anything that the Turks could use. It blew up railways and bridges and burned many villages. As a result of the rapes, arson and looting against the Turkish civilian population while retreating+

over a million civilian Turks were left homeless....