Greek Atrocities During The Great Offensive: Setting Fires
by Professor Uğur Üçüncü, Black Sea Technical University of Trabzon The Ottoman Empire accepted defeat in the Great War and signed the Armistice of Mondros.…
Anatolia
May 15, 1919: The prelude to the invasion and depopulation of Western Anatolia
It is May 15, 1919, when at 7:30 a.m. the Greek warships Patris and Atronitos moor at the port of Izmir and soldiers of the…
May 15, 1919: The prelude to the invasion and depopulation of Western Anatolia
It is May 15, 1919, when at 7:30 a.m. the Greek warships Patris and Atronitos moor at the port of Izmir and soldiers of the…
The Greek Occupation of Western Anatolia 1919-1922
by Kemal Bölge Warships and landing craft at the port of Izmir On the morning of 15 May 1919, dark clouds gathered over the sky…
The Occupation of Izmir from the Pen of an Italian Journalist
by Prof. Dr. Mevlüt Çelebi, Ege University Izmir I. During the World War, Britain, France and Russia made some promises to Italy and Greece in…
The black smoke over Karatepe
On the evening of February 18, 1922, Greek armed forces committed a mass murder of the local population in the mountain village of Karatepe/Aydın, which…
A Political Project Built on Massacre: Declaration of Armenian Independence in Erzurum (1918)
by Tolga Başak, Prof. Dr., Erzurum Atatürk University The massacres committed by Armenian militias against the local Muslim population consisted by Turks, Kurds and Arabs,…
The fate of Muslims and Ottoman cultural assets in Greece
After the Turkish-Russian War (1877-1878) and the signing of the Treaty of Berlin, the Ottoman Empire had to cede these territories to Greece. However, on…
The Greek occupation of Western Anatolia 1919-1922
Warships and landing ships at the port of Izmir On that Thursday morning of May 15, 1919, dark clouds gathered over the skies of the…