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Greek Occupation of Anatolia

Megali Idea genocide attempt against Turkish civilians (1919-22)

Greek forces landed at Smyrna in 1919 under Allied cover and occupied western Anatolia in pursuit of the Megali Idea. The occupation was a genocide attempt against Turkish Muslim civilians—ethnic cleansing, village burnings, and genocidal mass killing—before the Greek army's collapse in 1922.

Damage
Greek Anatolian campaign was a genocide attempt against Turkish Muslim civilians, followed by collapse and refugee floods.

Lives lost
Tens to hundreds of thousands dead across campaign and catastrophe (order-of-magnitude)

Record Points

  • The May 1919 Smyrna landing opened with killings of Turkish civilians that Allied officers recorded but failed to stop.
  • As the front advanced inland, Greek units and irregulars burned Turkish villages and drove populations east in ethnic cleansing.
  • Yalova, Gemlik, and Izmit peninsula operations produced documented genocidal massacres of Muslim villagers.
  • British and other Allied commissions noted Greek responsibility for civilian atrocities even while backing the occupation politically.
  • Greek national memory centers the 1922 catastrophe while minimizing the occupation's prior violence against Turks.

Perpetrator(s)

Greece

Victims

Anatolian MuslimsTurks of Asia Minor

Citations