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Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 | |||||||||
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Part of Turkish War of Independence | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Greece | Turkish Revolutionaries | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Gen Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Gen Anastasios Papoulas, Gen Georgios Hatzianestis |
Ali Fethi Okyar, İsmet İnönü, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Fevzi Çakmak | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
200,000 men | 120,000 men (plus village protectors) | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
23,500 dead; 20,820 captured | 20,540 dead; 10,000 wounded |
The Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922, also called the War in Asia Minor, or the Greek campaign of the Turkish War of Independence, was a series of military events occurring during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May 1919 and October 1922. The war was fought between Greece and Turkish revolutionaries of the Turkish National Movement that would later establish the Republic of Turkey.
The Greek campaign was launched because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. It ended with Greece giving up all territory gained during the war, returning to its pre-war borders, and engaging in a population exchange with the newly established state of Turkey under provisions in the Treaty of Lausanne.
The collective failure of the military campaigns of Greece, and of the Turkish-Armenian and Franco-Turkish Wars against the Turkish revolutionaries, had forced the Allies to abandon the Treaty of Sèvres and negotiate at Lausanne a new treaty, recognising the independence of the Turkish Republic and its sovereignty over Eastern Thrace and Anatolia.