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Burning of Smyrna
- The burning of Smyrna (Greek: Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης, " Smyrna Catastrophe "; Turkish: 1922 İzmir Yangını, "1922 İzmir Fire"; Armenian: Զմիւռնիոյ Մեծ Հրդեհ, Zmyuṙnio Mets Hrdeh) destroyed much of the port city of Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey) in September 1922.
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Professor of literature Marjorie Housepian Dobkin's 1971 study Smyrna 1922 concluded that the Turkish army systematically burned the city and killed Christian Greek and Armenian inhabitants. Her work is based on extensive eyewitness testimony from survivors, Allied troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats, relief workers ...
The final phase of the Greek Genocide took place at Smyrna in September 1922 when Kemalist forces entered the city and took part in an orgy of looting, rape and massacre that targeted the city's Christian population, primarily Greeks and Armenians.
Sep 9, 2024 · Greece seized Smyrna in 1919 as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The Turks took it back on 9 September 1922. Four days later the Turkish army set fire to Smyrna’s Greek and Armenian quarters. ‘Turkish quarter intact: 180,000 persons homeless’ was the Telegraph headline.
Sep 22, 2022 · It was the middle of September 1922, and Smyrna was burning. During the waning days of the Ottoman Empire and at the tail end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) that followed World War I, the port city of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor was set alight by arsonists.
Sep 14, 2024 · September 13, 1922 marks one of the darkest days of Hellenism, as Smyrna, one of the most prosperous and beautiful cities on the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, was destroyed by the Turks, sending hundreds of thousands of Greeks to a homeland they had never known.
Sep 10, 2021 · September 15-18, 1922. Refugees continued to arrive in Smyrna. There was hunger, thirst and a sanitary crisis. Ataturk decreed that any refugee in Smyrna on October 1 would be deported to central Anatolia. But deportations began immediately. All Christians of military age were deemed an enemy.
Sep 9, 2022 · A hundred years ago today, Turkish forces entered the city of Smyrna (now Izmir), bringing an end to the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish War. Michael Cottakis reflects on the legacy of the events of September 1922 for Turkey, Greece, and the wider world.
