Draft:History of the Greco-Turkish Wars

Greco-Turkish Wars


First image: Some of battles during the Byzantine-Seljuq Wars, 1071.

Second Image:

Walls of Constantinople, Ottoman janissaries, Byzantine flag, Ottoman bronze cannon during the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars. (Clockwise from top to left).

Third Image:

Clockwise from top to left: The camp at Phaliro, The burning of an Ottoman frigate by a Greek fire ship, Battle of Navarino, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt at the Third Siege of Missolonghi during the Greek War of Independence.

Fourth Image:

Battle of Domokos, a battle During the Greco-Turkish War (1897).

Fifth Image:

Balkans in 1913, at the end of the Balkan Wars.

Sixth Image:

Clockwise from top left: Mustafa Kemal at the end of the First Battle of İnönü; Greek soldiers retreat during the last stages; Greek infantry charge in river Gediz; Turkish infantry in trench.
Date1046-1922
Location
Result

Turkish victory in Generally[1][2][3][4][5]

The Turks and Greeks had a lot of war between 1046-1922 which starts with Byzantine-Seljuq Wars and ends with Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).



References

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  1. ^ According to John R. Ferris, "Decisive Turkish victory in Anatolia ... produced Britain's gravest strategic crisis between the 1918 Armistice and Munich, plus a seismic shift in British politics ..." Erik Goldstein and Brian McKerche, Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865–1965, 2004 p. 139
  2. ^ A. Strahan claimed that: "The internationalisation of Constantinople and the Straits under the aegis of the League of Nations, feasible in 1919, was out of the question after the complete and decisive Turkish victory over the Greeks". A. Strahan, Contemporary Review, 1922.
  3. ^ N. B. Criss, Istanbul Under Allied Occupation, 1918–1923, 1999, p. 143. "But now in 1922, after the decisive Turkish victory over the Greeks, 40,000 Turkish soldiers moved towards Çannakale."
  4. ^ Myles Hudson, Fall of Constantinople, Encyclopedia Britannica
  5. ^ Gyula Andrássy, Bismarck, Andrássy, and Their Successors, Houghton Mifflin, 1927, p. 273.