August 30, 1922 was indelibly engraved in the memory of the Greeks and the Turks as a day that changed the course of History in Asia Minor forever. That day the decisive and latest battle of the Asia Minor campaign, the battle at Dublippinar, was held near Afion Karachi. The Greek forces, exhausted by previous conflicts and with their forehead already breaking, met the decisive attack by the Turkish army under the leadership of Kemal Ataturk. The strategy and organization of the Kemalist forces proved to be decisive. The Greek soldiers failed to recover from the overall overthrow and followed a disorderly retreat to the coast, with many lost or capturing. The withering and the disaster spread rapidly and the unpleasant news arrived in the Greek territories through the exhausted soldiers who returned. The consequence of the defeat was the abandonment of Smyrna, which sank in flames, and the uprooting of more than 1.5 million Greeks living in the area. The ‘day of her […]
Source: News Beast
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