The General Character of the Greek Occupation in the course of the Turkish National Struggle

Greeks who invaded Anatolia following the World War I, did unbelievably inhuman actions in order to terminate Turks in Western Anatolia and Thrace. Many Turks had either died, tortured, injured or had been raped, and many losses the value of which could not be calculated had taken place as a result of these actions in the various Regions of Anatolia for the realisation of the Greek dream called Megali Idea. This study focused on the results caused by the Greek occupation. When Greece invaded Izmir in 15 May 1919, Anatolia killed Turks, pilaged their properties and forced them to migrate by gathering band of rebels. Greece sent Greek immigrants from Greece and Aegean Islands to gather Greek majority in Western Anatolia. The general character of occupation movement of Greeks has shown itself in the following way: Rum and Greek Guerillas burnt Turkish villages, took money, ornaments and household goods of Turks. The basic duties of the Roum and Greek guerillas were usurpation, theft, robbery, trashing, wounding and killing regardless of any exclution.