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The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, known as the Western Front (Turkish: Batı Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey and the Asia Minor Campaign (Greek: Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία) or the Asia Minor Catastrophe (Greek: Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή) in Greece, was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May 1919 and October 1922.The Greek campaign was launched primarily as the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire.

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  • The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, known as the Western Front (Turkish: Batı Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey and the Asia Minor Campaign (Greek: Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία) or the Asia Minor Catastrophe (Greek: Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή) in Greece, was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May 1919 and October 1922.The Greek campaign was launched primarily as the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire.
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  • (Interwar period)
  • Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922
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causalties
  • 11,150 missing
  • 2,474 died of wounds or non-combat causes
  • 31,097 wounded
  • 6,522 prisoners**
  • 9,167 killed
  • Regular army:
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  • * (Kuva-yi Milliye(1919–1920)
  • Armenianvolunteers
  • Grand National Assembly
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  • Soviet Russia
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  • * Kuva-yi Milliye operated independently between 1919–20 until it was put under the control of the Grand National Assembly.
  • *according to Turkish sources 20,826 Greek prisoners were taken. Of those about 740 officers and 13,000 soldiers arrived in Greece during the prisoner exchange in 1923. The rest presumably died in captivity and are listed among the "missing".
  • **Greece took 22,071 military and civilian prisoners. Of those were 520 officers and 6,002 soldiers. During the prisoner exchange in 1923, 329 officers, 6,002 soldiers and 9,410 civilian prisoners arrived in Turkey. The remaining 6,330, mostly civilian prisoners, presumably died in Greek captivity.
  • * The Turkish Grand National Assembly was opened in 1920.
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result
  • *Population exchangebetween the two nations
  • *Treaty of Lausanne
  • Decisive Turkish victory
  • ** End of Greek presence in Anatolia and most of East Thrace
strength
  • 1919: 5,000
  • 1922: 215,000
  • April 1920: 90,000
  • Armenian volunteers: 2,500 (1922)
  • August 1921: 92,000
  • August 1922: 208,000 men
  • January 1921: 100,000
  • January 1921: 50,000
  • June 1920: 15,000
  • June 1921: 200,000
  • May 1919: 15,000
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