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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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===Administrative reforms===
During the occupation of the city, the Greeks established a number of institutions in the city. For example, the first University in İzmir was founded by the Phanariot Greek Mathematician [[Constantin Carathéodory]]. This was the first university to be established in Smyrna.<ref
 name=autogenerated1>Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian, Smyrna: The Destruction of a City</ref>

Several programs were instituted to better the lives of all inhabitants of the city, regardless of race or creed, including:

*Gratuitous bacteriological, hygienic and industrial examinations for all classes of the community.
*The preparation and gratuitous distribution of all healing and diagnostic inoculations, serums, antitoxins, antigonococcus, etc.
*The sanitation of the town on an extensive scale, sewerage, water-supply, streets, etc.
*Sanitary works for the combating of malaria, the draining of marshes, etc.
*The combating of [[trachoma]].
*The combating of [[phthisis]] on a large scale, (dispensaries, asylums, convalescent homes, special hospitals, sanitation of houses, etc.)
*For infants: dispensaries, gouttes de lait, crèches, foundling homes, etc.
*For children: various philanthropic institutions. For mothers: pre-natal pre-culture.
*Education and training of doctors to compose the service of public health.
*Training for midwives and nurses.
*Organization of a registry office of births and deaths.
*Organization of special medical statistical service
<ref>Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian, Smyrna: The Destruction of a City</ref name=autogenerated1 />

==Turkish recapture, September 1922==
The Greek operation deep in Anatolia proved a disaster and by [[1922]] the Greek army had been routed with Kemal's forces pursuing them to İzmir. The British representative in İzmir warned, "The Greeks have realised 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 (contracted; show full)
{{War of Turkish Independence}}

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

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