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Big Offensive (Büyük Taarruz)
Leader Mustafa Kemal in Kocatepe (Afyon)
Leader Mustafa Kemal in Kocatepe ( Afyon )
date August 26, 1922 to September 19, 1922
place Western Anatolia
output Turkish victory
consequences Armistice of Mudanya , end of the Turkish Liberation War
Parties to the conflict

Ottoman Empire 1844Ottoman EmpireAnkara government of the Turkish national movement

Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Kingdom of Greece

Commander

TurkeyTurkey Mustafa Kemal Pasha Fevzi Pasha İsmet Pasha
TurkeyTurkey
TurkeyTurkey

Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Georgios Hatzianestis Leonidas Paraskevopoulos Anastasios Papoulas
Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece
Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece

Troop strength
104,000 men
  • 98,670 rifles
  • 2,025 light machine guns
  • 839 heavy machine guns
  • 323 cannons
  • 198 trucks
  • 33 cars and ambulances
  • 10 fighter planes
195,000 men
  • 130,000 rifles
  • 3,152 light machine guns
  • 1,002 heavy machine guns
  • 344 cannons
  • 4,036 trucks
  • 1,776 cars and ambulances
  • 50 fighter planes
losses

2,318 dead
1,697 missing
9,360 wounded
101 prisoners

18,250 dead
35,000 missing and prisoners
16,030 wounded

The Great Offensive (in Turkish: Büyük Taarruz ) is the largest and last military operation of the Greco-Turkish War . It began on August 26, 1922 with the Battle of Dumlupınar . The Turkish resistance movement, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, covered a distance of about 300 kilometers with its largest troop of the war of liberation within ten days and relied on infantry and cavalry . As a result, the Greek siege of Anatolia came to an end.

course

On September 9, 1922, the Turkish armed forces reached Izmir, which they also captured . Another part of the army, however, moved from Eskişehir towards Bursa . Aydın , Germencik and Kuşadası were brought under Turkish control two days earlier . When the last Greek troops were defeated in Erdek and Biga on September 18 of the same year, the operation was over. Thereupon a great loss of morale became noticeable among the Greeks.

photos

Turkish soldiers in the trenches
Greek soldiers retreat

Individual evidence

  1. a b Belgelerle Türk tarihi dergisi . Menteş Kitabevi, 1999, ISSN  0522-7364 , OCLC 2242754 (Turkish, limited preview in Google book search).
  2. General Staff of Army: History of the Asia Minor Campaign, General Staff of the Army . Directorate of Army History, Athens 1967, p. 140 .
  3. ^ AA Pallis: Greece's Anatolian Venture - and After. Taylor & Francis, p. 56 ( books.google.com , footnote 5).
  4. a b Celâl Erikan: 100 [ie Yüz] soruda Kurtuluş Savaşımızın tarihi . Gerçek Yayınevi, 1917, OCLC 13859567 , p. 243 (Turkish, limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ A b Revue internationale d'histoire militaire . No. 46-48 , 1980, pp. 227 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ The Ogden standard examiner. September 7, 1922, ISSN  2163-4785 , p. 2 ( chroniclingamerica.loc.gov [accessed August 26, 2018]).