Reports on atrocities in the districts of Yalova and Guemlek and in the Ismid Peninsula : $b Presented to Parliament by command of His MajestyInter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek
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Reports on atrocities in the districts of Yalova and Guemlek and in the Ismid Peninsula : $b Presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty
Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 -- Atrocities
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H. M. FARMAR, _Lieutenant-Colonel_.
TEMPORARY COLONEL VITELLI.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILKONSKY.
O. H. VAN MILLINGEN, _Major_.
EXCESSES OF WHICH THE GREEKS ARE ACCUSED.
The principal excesses of which the Greeks are accused took place after
July 1920, when the Greek military forces occupied the territory.
These excesses are attributed either to the regular troops or to bands.
(A.) When they arrived in the territory (in July and August), the
regular troops attacked various Moslem villages, principally those in
the region east of Beicos. Inhabitants were killed, cattle carried off,
and houses and even whole villages burnt. To this should be added
individual offences on the part of soldiers belonging to Greek
detachments, such as extortion of money, theft, violence and murder. In
the occupied regions the Greek military authorities first made numerous
arrests and caused people to be summarily executed (more particularly at
Beicos-Chibukli).
A good many searches made for hidden weapons gave rise to individual
offences, violence and theft. These individual offences, caused by
insufficient discipline, were not usually stopped.
The attacks against villages became more frequent in March and April,
when the Greek troops were abandoning the eastern part of the peninsula,
and began in the region of Ada-Bazar. Turkish villages between Kudra and
Ada-Bazar were chiefly affected, a large number of the inhabitants being
maltreated and killed, women violated, cattle carried off and houses
fired.
(B.) Greek bands, formed of men who had generally suffered under Turkish
oppression, and who were just as much actuated by a thirst for vengeance
as a desire for loot, carried out depredations during the Greek
occupation with an amount of freedom which leads one to conclude that
the Greek military authorities did not take the necessary steps to
prevent these misdeeds.
In the region of Shileh, it may be even taken as very probable, if not
certain, that the Greek military authorities regarded their formation
and activities with favour.
In the region now occupied by them the Greek forces armed, and used as
auxiliaries, refugees, from Greek villages which had been looted or
burnt by the Turks. By their attacks on Turkish villages situated
outside the effective zone of occupation of the Greek troops, and by the
atrocities committed by them, these bands have revived former hatred and
have brought about the ferocious reprisals of which Greek villages—and
specially those of the region south of Ismid—have been the victims.
The Greeks have also employed as auxiliaries a large number of
Circassians (Moslems from the Caucasus), more than 30,000 of whom had
taken refuge in the region east of Ismid. These have become the enemies
of the Nationalists.
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