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Smyrna
1922
The Destruction of a City
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
In September of 1922, Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk), the victorious revolutionary leader of Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now Izmir) a predominantly Christian city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships -including 3 American destroyers- looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape and slaughter that the western powers anxious to protect their oil and trade interests in Turkey, condoned by their silence and refusal to intervene. Turkish forces then set fire to the legendary city and totally destroyed it. There followed a massive cover-up by tacit agreement of the Western Allies. By 1923 Smyrna's demise was all but expunged from historical memory.
Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
Wie Brutal türkischen "Soldaten" (ok Soldaten wäre übertrieben, sagen wir Banden) vorgegangensind, Vergewaltigungen, Abschalchtungen und Plünderungen.