{"id":18476,"date":"2010-04-15T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18476"},"modified":"2023-04-05T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:16:55","slug":"izmir-symrna-arsons-greeks-and-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/15\/izmir-symrna-arsons-greeks-and-turks\/","title":{"rendered":"Izmir (Symrna) arsons, Greeks and Turks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/letters\/2010\/0413\/1224268227162.html\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Denis O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s letter (April 9th) condemning President McAleese\u2019s laying of a wreath at the tomb of Ataturk because he was \u201cresponsible for the ethnic cleansing of Smyrna in Asia Minor\u201d is a very partial view of history.The Turkish capture of Smyrna occurred as the culmination of a Greek attempt to conquer Anatolia, which led to large scale ethnic cleansing of Muslims, starting in Smyrna itself and reaching to where it was stopped by Ataturk, at the gates of Ankara.The Greeks were victims of their own irredentist dreams of a new Byzantium and their misplaced faith in Lloyd George, in attempting to impose the punitive Treaty of S\u00e8vres on Turkey.In any other context, such as that applied to the second World War, the recapture of Smyrna would be seen as an act of liberation and the blame for the unfortunate events of September 1922 placed at the hands of the original aggressors. \u2013 Yours, etc,Dr PAT WALSH,Leyland Crescent,Ballycastle, Co Antrim.<br \/>\nFrom The Author of<br \/>\nForgotten Aspects Of Ireland\u2019s Great War on Turkey1919\u20131924(Unutulan Y\u00f6nleriyle \u0130rlanda\u2019n\u0131n T\u00fcrkiye\u2019ye Kar\u015f\u0131 B\u00fcy\u00fck Sava\u015f\u0131: 1914\u20131924) Dr. Pat Walsh. \u00a0ATHOL BOOKS, Belfast 2009<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by Mr Yusuf Cinar, Mr Nizam Bulut,\u00a0Galway, Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s letter (April 9th) condemning President McAleese\u2019s laying of a wreath at the tomb of Ataturk because he was \u201cresponsible for the ethnic cleansing of Smyrna in Asia Minor\u201d is a very partial view of history.The Turkish capture of Smyrna occurred as the culmination of a Greek attempt to conquer Anatolia, which led to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,835,225,527,89],"tags":[4259,232],"class_list":["post-18476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-europe","category-greece","category-ireland","category-turkey","tag-ataturk-features","tag-history-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}