Author: HOUSEPIAN DOBKIN, MARJORIE
Title: Smyrna 1922 : The Destruction of a City
Description: Kent OH, Kent State University Press. 1988, Reprint. (ISBN: 0873383591) Soft cover. Book, "In September, 1922, Mustapha Kemal {Ataturk}, the victorious revolutionary ruler of Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now Izmir) a predominantly Christian city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships-- including three American destroyers-- looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape and slaughter that the Western powers anxious to protect their oil and trade interests in Turkey, condoned by their silence and refusal to intervene. Turkish forces then set fire to the legendary city and totally destroyed it. There followed a massive cover-up by tacit agreement of the Western Allies who had defeated Turkey and Germany during World War I. By 1923 Smyrna"s demise was all but expunged from historical memory" and even now, October 2007, the Turks are still denying responsibility for the destruction of their Christian citizens. 275p. bibliography.index. Fine.

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