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Trench warfare during the Greco-Turkish War
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| Conflict | Greco-Turkish War of 1919 � 1922 (Interwar period) | | Date | May 1919 � October 1922 | | Location | West Anatolia | | Result | Decisive Turkish victory; Treaty of Lausanne. | Territorial
changes | Lands initially ceded to Greece from the Ottoman Empire are restored to the Republic of Turkey. Population exchange between the two nations. | | Turkey Turkish Revolutionaries | | Kingdom of Greece | Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkey Fevzi Çakmak
Turkey İsmet İnönü | Kingdom of Greece Leonidas Paraskevopoulos
Kingdom of Greece Anastasios Papoulas
Kingdom of Greece Georgios Hatzianestis | 50,000 (1919)
450,000 (1922) (if irregulars included) | | Maximum deployed, 12 Divisions~200,000 (without including irregulars) | 10,885 dead
31,173 wounded in the battlefield,
22,690 dead from disease
34,885 dead all Turkish War of Independence |
19,362 killed
18,095 missing*
48,880 wounded
4,878 died outside of combat
ca 10,000 prisoners*
Total: ~101,215 |
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The Greco � Turkish War of 1919 � 1922, known as the Western Front ( ) of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey and the Asia Minor Campaign ( ) or the Asia Minor Catastrophe ( ) in Greece, 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 who 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 Greek military campaign against the Turkish revolutionaries, coupled with the expulsion of the French military from the region of Cilicia, forced the Allies to abandon the Treaty of Sèvres. Instead, they negotiated a new treaty at Lausanne. This new treaty recognised the independence of the Republic of Turkey and its sovereignty over East Thrace and Anatolia.
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