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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Occupation of İzmir
|partof=[[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)]] <br> campaign of [[Turkish War of Independence]]
|image=[[Image:Izmir15Mayis1919.jpg|280px]]
|caption=Greek Soldiers taking their posts
|date=[[21 May]] [[1919]] – [[8 Sep]] [[1922]]  
|place=İzmir district [[occupied]] by [[Greece]]
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By September 9th, the Turkish army had entered İzmir, with the Greek authorities having left two days before. Large scale disorder followed, with the [[Christian]] population now suffering under attacks from soldiers and Turkish inhabitants. The Greek archbishop [[Chrysostomos of Smyrna|Chrysostomos]] had been lynched by a mob
 which included Turkish soldiers, and on [[September 13]], a fire from the Armenian quarter of the city had engulfed the Christian waterfront of the city, leaving the city devastated. The blame for the fire is divided between Turks, Greeks, Armenians or an accident.<ref>Peter Kincaid Jensen, 1979. International Journal of Middle East Studies p564</ref>
{{See|Great Fire of Smyrna}}

==Effects==
{{Further|[[Agreement of St.-Jean-de-Maurienne]], [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey]]}}
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{{War of Turkish Independence}}

[[Category:Aftermath of World War I]]
[[Category:Turkish War of Independence]]
[[Category:Wars involving Greece]]

[[tr:İzmir'in İşgali]]