List of massacres during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Responsible Party	Victims	Notes
Greek landing at Smyrna	15–16 May 1919	Smyrna	400–500 killed	Greeks, Turks	Turks, Greeks	The orderly landing of the Greek army soon turned into a riot against the local Turkish population by local Greeks and Greek soldiers. Stores and houses were looted, many cases of beatings, rape, killing. Estimates for killed and wounded Greeks are 100, for Turks between 300-400.[1] Further 4000 Turks were killed during Greek occupation in Smyrna, excluding these events and Menemen Massacre[2][circular reference]. McCarthy claims that 640,000 Turks were killed by Greeks in occupation areas between Greek landing at Smyrna and Turkish capture of Smyrna[3][4] however his work has faced harsh criticism by many scholars who have characterized McCarthy's views as biased towards Turkey[5] and defending Turkish atrocities against Armenians as well as genocide denial.[6][7][8]
Menemen massacre	16–17 June 1919	Menemen	100–200	Greeks	Turks	200 killed, 200 injured [9]
Battle of Aydın	27 June–4 July 1919	Aydın	2,700–3,500	Turks and Greeks	Turks and Greeks	The Greek army occupied the city which was later taken by Turkish irregulars and then again by the Greeks. These developments resulted in the destruction of most of the city and massacres from both sides. Killed Greeks were estimated as 1,500-2,000, Turks as 1,200-1,500.
İzmit massacres	March 1920 –June 1921	Ortaköy, Geyve, Akhisar, İznik, İzmit district	12,000[10]	Turkish irregulars and Turkish nationalist army	Greeks	An Allied report (in June 1921) stated that 12,000 Greeks were massacred and 30 villages destroyed.[11][12]
Yalova Peninsula massacres	1920-21	Gemlik/Yalova Peninsula	estimates vary: 5,500[13] - 9,100[14]	Greeks troops, local Greeks, Armenians and Circassians[15]	Turks	The perpetrators were Greek troops and local Greek and Armenian gangs, who burned down Orhangazi, Yenişehir, Armutlu. In total 27 villages were razed and their population fled. In Armutlu women were methodically raped.[16] Circassians participated also in the events.[15] According to statements gathered by Ottoman officials from the Muslim refugees at the Davut Paşa camp, in total, 35 were reported to have been killed, wounded, beaten, or missing, per the questionnaire submitted by a group of 177 refugees reporting on their family members.[17]
Bilecik massacre	March–April 1921	Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük	208[18]	Greeks troops, local Greeks	Turks	The town of Bilecik and crops were burned down by the retreating Greek army, local people were massacred.[19] Bilecik, Sögüt, Bozüyük and dozens of neighboring villages were burned or plundered by the hastily retreating Greek army, their haste limited the destruction.[18]
Samsun deportations	May–November 1921	Samsun	21,000 deported, c. 10,000 dead.[20]	Turkish irregulars and Turkish nationalist army	Greeks	Central Army under Nureddin Pasha[21] and irregulars under Topal Osman[22] forced the Greeks of Samsun to Death Marches.
İzmit massacre	24 June 1921	İzmit	300[23][24]	Greek Army	Turks	Up to 300 people, mostly men, were executed by Greek troops. Their bodies were buried in a mass grave outside the town. Arnold J. Toynbee was a reporter who described these events in the Manchester Guardian.[23]
Karatepe village massacre [tr]	14 February 1922	Karatepe	385[25]	Greek Army	Turks	In one of the examples of the Greek atrocities during the retreat, on 14 February 1922, in the Turkish village of Karatepe in Aydin Vilayeti, after being surrounded by the Greeks, all the inhabitants were put into the mosque, then the mosque was burned. The few who escaped fire were shot.[26][verification needed]
Salihli massacre	5 September 1922	Salihli	at least 76[27]	Greek forces	Turks	The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 65% of the buildings were destroyed.[28]
Turgutlu massacre	4–6 September 1922	Turgutlu (former Kasaba)	at least 1,000; somewhere between 1,000 to 31,000[28]	Greek forces	Turks	The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 90% of the buildings were destroyed.[28] Approximately 1,000 died.[28] Park:"Cassaba (present day Turgutlu) was a town of 40,000 souls, 3,000 of whom were non-Muslims. Of these 37,000 Turks only 6,000 could be accounted for among the living, while 1,000 Turks were known to have been shot or burned to death. Of the 2,000 buildings that constituted the city, only 200 remained standing."
Turgutlu massacre[29]	September 1922	Turgutlu (former Kasaba)	4,000[29]	Turks	Greeks	From 8,000 Greek civilians gathered in the town, half of them remained after the evacuation of the Greek Army. They were killed by the advancing Turkish soldiers. As a part of Greek genocide.[29]
Uşak massacre	1 September 1922	Uşak	200[30]	Greeks	Turks	The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 33% of the buildings were destroyed.[28] [dubious – discuss]
Manisa massacre	6–7 September 1922	Manisa	4,355[31]	Greek troops	Turks	The city was burned by the retreating Greek army.[28] 855 people shootted down by Greek Army and 3,500 people died in flames. Turkish sources are guessing that 300 women were kidnapped to rape.[32][circular reference] James Loder Park, the U.S. Vice-Consul in Constantinople at the time, who toured much of the devastated area immediately after the Greek evacuation, described the situation, as follows:[28] "Manisa... almost completely wiped out by fire... 10,300 houses, 15 mosques, 2 baths, 2,278 shops, 19 hotels, 26 villas... [destroyed]."
Alaşehir massacre [tr]	3–4 September 1922	Alaşehir	3,000[33]	Greeks	Turks	The city was burned by the retreating Greek army.[28]
Akhisar massacre	September 1922	Akhisar	7,000[34]	Turkish forces	Greeks	As a result of the capture of the city by the Turkish nationalist army, 7,000 out of the 10,000 strong Greek community of the city was massacred in a nearby gorge. Since then there is no Christian community in the city.[34]
Ayvalık massacre	After September 19, 1922	Ayvalık	2,977[35]	Turkish forces	Greeks	Most of the male Greek population, some 3,000, who remained in the town were deported to the interior of Anatolia, of those only 23 survived. The rest of the population was deported to Greece. As a part of Greek genocide.[35]
Cunda Island massacre	After September 19, 1922	Cunda Island	Hundreds[35]	Turkish forces	Greeks	Several hundreds of Greek civilians were killed on the islet of Cunda Island, only some children were spared. As a part of Greek genocide.[36]
Massacres before and during the Turkish capture of Smyrna	8–22 September 1922	İzmir	"Every morning scores of newly dead bodies appeared"[37]	Turkish gangs and soldiers[37]	Greeks[37]	Further 10,000 to 125,000 Greeks and Armenians died as a result of the Great Fire of Smyrna[37][38][39]

Map of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

See also

• Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
• Outline and timeline of the Greek genocide
• List of massacres in Turkey

References

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12. Reports on atrocities in the districts of Yalova and Guemlek and in the Ismid Peninsula. 1921. pp. 1–2–3–4–5–6–7–8–9–10–11. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
13. McNeill, William H. (1989). Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199923397. To protect their flanks from harassment, Greek military authorities then encouraged irregular bands of armed men to attack and destroy Turkish populations of the region they proposed to abandon. By the time the Red Crescent vessel arrived at Yalova from Constantinople in the last week of May, fourteen out of sixteen villages in that town's immediate hinterland had been destroyed, and there were only 1500 survivors from the 7000 Moslems who had been living in these communities.
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15. Smith, Michael Llewellyn (1999). Ionian vision : Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922 (New edition, 2nd impression ed.). London: C. Hurst. p. 209. ISBN 9781850653684. At the same time bands of Christian irregulars, Greek Armenian, and Circassian, looted, burned and murdered in the Yalove-Gemlik peninsula.
16. Sorrowful Shores, Ryan Gingeras, page 111-112, 2009
17. Gingeras, Ryan (2009). Sorrowful Shores:Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923. Oxford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780191609794. In total only thirty-five were reported to have been killed, wounded, beaten, or missing. This is in line with the observations of Arnold Toynbee, who declared that one to two murders were sufficient to drive away the population of a village.
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21. Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran, Belgelerle Kurtuluş Savaşı Anıları, Istanbul 1982, p. 81. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Gizli Celse Zabitlari, Kültür Yayinlari Türkiye Is Bankasi, v. 2, pp. 240 sq., 252-287, 626-650.
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23. Sorrowful Shores, Ryan Gingeras, page 112, 2009
24. Toynbee, Arnold Joseph (1970). The Western Question in Greece and Turkey:A Study in the Contact of Civilizations (PDF). H. Fertig, originally: University of California. p. 553. ' But at 1 P.M. on Friday the 24th June, three and a half days before the Greek evacuation, the male inhabitants of the two Turkish quarters of Baghcheshmé and Tepekhané, in the highest part of the town, away from the sea, had been dragged out to the cemetery and shot in batches. On Wednesday the 29th I was present when two of the graves were opened, and ascertained for myself that the corpses were those of Moslems and that their arms had been pinioned behind their backs. There were thought to be about sixty corpses in that group of graves, and there were several others. In all, over 300 people were missing—a death-roll probably exceeding that at Smyrna on the 15th and 16th May 1919.
25. Yunan mezalimi: İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Denizli : 1919-1923, Mustafa Turan, University of Michigan-Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iy1pAAAAMAAJ&q=14+%C5%9Eubatta+ku%C5%9Fat%C4%B1ld%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1n%C4%B1,+c%C3%A2milerin+ate%C5%9Fe+verildi%C4%9Fini,+400+ki%C5%9Fiden+yaln%C4%B1z+15+kad%C4%B1n+ve+erke%C4%9Fin+ka%C3%A7t%C4%B1klar%C4%B1n%C4%B1n+kendisine+bildirildi%C4%9Fini%22+yaz%C4%B1yordu425.&dq=14+%C5%9Eubatta+ku%C5%9Fat%C4%B1ld%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1n%C4%B1,+c%C3%A2milerin+ate%C5%9Fe+verildi%C4%9Fini,+400+ki%C5%9Fiden+yaln%C4%B1z+15+kad%C4%B1n+ve+erke%C4%9Fin+ka%C3%A7t%C4%B1klar%C4%B1n%C4%B1n+kendisine+bildirildi%C4%9Fini%22+yaz%C4%B1yordu425.&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=xW3tUYWALYiHswae0oHYDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA%7Cquote=14 Şubatta kuşatıldığını, câmilerin ateşe verildiğini, 400 kişiden yalnız 15 kadın ve erkeğin kaçtıklarının kendisine bildirildiğini" yazıyordu
26. Toynbee, Arnold (6 April 1922) [9 March 1922], "Letter", The Times, Turkey.
27. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 132. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1923. p. 829. Two thirds of Salihli, with a population of 10,000, only a tenth of whom were Greeks, had been burned over, seventy-six people were known to have burned to death, and a hundred young girls were said to have been taken away by Greek
28. "Of these 37,000 Turks only 6,000 could be accounted for among the living, while 1,000 Turks were known to have been shot or burned to death." U.S. Vice-Consul James Loder Park to Secretary of State, Smyrna, 11 April 1923. US archives US767.68116/34.
29. Μπουμπουγιατζή, Ευαγγελία (2009). "Οι διωγμοί των Ελλήνων της Ιωνίας 1914-1922". University of Western Macedonia: 384. Retrieved 23 June 2013. Από τους 8.000 Έλληνες οι μισοί δεν είχαν διαφύγει με τα ελληνικά στρατεύματα, με αποτέλεσμα να εξοντωθούν από τα κεμαλικά [From the 8,000, half of them remained in town after the evacuation and were annihilated by the Kemalist forces] {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
30. Adıvar, Halide Edib (1928). The Turkish Ordeal: Being the Further Memoirs of Halidé Edib. Century Company, University of Virginia. p. 363.
31. Batı Anadolu'da Yunan mezalimi:, Mustafa Tayla, University of Michigan,- Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi,|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5T5pAAAAMAAJ&q=ve+(3500)+ki%C5%9Fi+ate%C5%9F+de+yak%C4%B1lmak+ve+(855)+ki%C5%9Fi+kur%C5%9Funa+dizilmek+suretiyle+%C3%B6ld%C3%BCr%C3%BClm%C3%BC%C5%9Ft%C3%BCr&dq=ve+(3500)+ki%C5%9Fi+ate%C5%9F+de+yak%C4%B1lmak+ve+(855)+ki%C5%9Fi+kur%C5%9Funa+dizilmek+suretiyle+%C3%B6ld%C3%BCr%C3%BClm%C3%BC%C5%9Ft%C3%BCr&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=2WntUazSMIOetAbdwoGoCg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
32. "1922 Manisa yangını - Vikipedi". tr.m.wikipedia.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-02-20.
33. Mango, Atatürk, p. 343.
34. Karathanasis, Athanasios (2013). "The Genocide of the Greeks in Asia Minor". Cosmos. 2 (2). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: 19. doi:10.26262/kosmos.v2i0.5373. ISSN 2529-0797. In Axari [Akhisar], 7.000 out of 10.000 Greeks were slaughtered in the gorge of Kirtik Dere.
35. Clark, Bruce (2006). Twice a stranger : the mass expulsion that forged modern Greece and Turkey. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780674023680. only twenty-three of the 3000 men from Ayvali came back alive..
36. Clark, Bruce (2006). Twice a stranger : the mass expulsion that forged modern Greece and Turkey. Cambridge, (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780674023680. On the nearby islet which is known in Greek as Moschonisi and in Turkish as Cunda, several hundred civilians of all ages were taken away and killed, only some of the children were spared and sent to orphanages
37. Naimark, Norman M. (2002). Fires of hatred : ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe (1. Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed., 2. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780674009943. Turkish gangs roamed the Armenian quarter, breaking into homes, robbing and killing seemingly at will.
38. Trudy Ring; Noelle Watson; Paul Schellinger (2013). Southern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 351. ISBN 9781134259588. Retrieved 23 February 2014. Kemal's triumphant entry into Izmir ... as Greek and Armenian inhabitants were raped, mutilate, and murdered.
39. Abulafia, David (2011). The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780195323344. Retrieved 23 February 2014. As the refugees crowded into the city, massacres, rape and looting, mainly but not exclusively by the irregulars, became the unspoken order of the day