Big offensive
date | August 26, 1922 to September 19, 1922 |
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place | Western Anatolia |
output | Turkish victory |
consequences | Armistice of Mudanya , end of the Turkish Liberation War |
Parties to the conflict | |
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Ankara government of the Turkish national movement |
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Commander | |
Georgios Hatzianestis Leonidas Paraskevopoulos Anastasios Papoulas
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Troop strength | |
104,000 men
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195,000 men
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losses | |
2,318 dead |
18,250 dead |
Smyrna I - Aydın - İnönü I - İnönü II - Eskişehir - Sakarya - Great Offensive ( Dumlupınar - Smyrna II )
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.
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Individual evidence
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- ^ AA Pallis: Greece's Anatolian Venture - and After. Taylor & Francis, p. 56 ( books.google.com , footnote 5).
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