LIST OF WARS: DETAILS
Second Greco Turkish War
Years: 1919-1922
Battle deaths: 50,000 [1]
Battle deaths: 50,000 [1]
Nation(s) involved and/or conflict territory [note]
Greece, Turkey
The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, also called the War in Asia Minor, and (in Turkey) a part of the Turkish War of Independence, was a war between Greece and Turkey fought in the wake of World War I.
The war arose because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side. These included eastern Thrace, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, and parts of western Anatolia around the city of Smyrna (current day Ýzmir), all of which had substantial Greek populations.
The war arose because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side. These included eastern Thrace, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, and parts of western Anatolia around the city of Smyrna (current day Ýzmir), all of which had substantial Greek populations.
SOURCES: FATALITY DATA
Notes on fatalities
[1] Battle deaths: Correlates of War, Inter-State War Data v4.0
NOTE ON NATION DATA
NOTE! Nation data for this war may be inconlusive or incomplete. In most cases it reflects which nations were involved with troops in this war, but in some it may instead reflect the contested territory.
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