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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]]
(contracted; show full)d that they have got to go but they are decided to leave a desert behind them, no matter whose interests may suffer thereby. Everything which they have time and means to move will be carried off to Greece; the Turks will be plundered and burnt out of house and home" <ref name="three-four-three">Andrew Mango, Atatürk. p343.</ref>. The Turkish pursuit left little room to fulfill this prophecy, but a [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)#Greek scorched earth policy|scorched earth policy]]
 policy had left wide tracts of the surrounding land in ruins, leaving the population of İzmir close to starvation.<ref name="one-five-three"/>{{,}}<ref name="three-four-three"/> It is estimated some 3,000 lives had been lost in the burning of [[Alaşehir]] alone.<ref name="three-four-three"/>

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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]]