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{{Mergewith|Greek administration of Smyrna (1919-1922)|date=October 2008}}
{{POV|date=December 2007}}
{{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]] 
(contracted; show full)s and yells… Many fall under the bayonet thrusts. The men are forced to tear the [[fez]]es from their heads and trample them underfoot – the worst outrage for a Mohammedan – all who refuse are cut down with the sword. The veils are torn from the women's faces. The mob begins to plunder the house of the Mohammedan”<ref>Von Mikusch, Mustafa Kemal, pp192–193.</ref>.

There were several Westerner eye-witnesses to the events that took place in Izmir. In such a report, Commanding Officer of the 
U.S.S. [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|USS ''Arizona'']] wrote: 

<blockquote>Old men, unarmed, and other unoffending civilian Turks were knocked down by the Greeks, killed by stabbing with knives or bayonets, and then afterwards, having their valuables and clothes stripped off their bodies, were thrown into the sea...Specific instances are cited by these same eyewitnesses where Turkish soldiers and officers were bayoneted from behind by their Greek guards, while the rabble rifled their pockets and then threw their bodies into the sea. Many of the worst in(contracted; show full)
{{Turkish War of Independence}}

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

[[tr:İzmir'in İşgali]]