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
The members of the commission consider that, in the part of the kazas of
Yalova and Guemlek occupied by the Greek army, there is a systematic
plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Moslem
population. This plan is being carried out by Greek and Armenian bands,
which appear to operate under Greek instructions and sometimes even with
the assistance of detachments of regular troops.
This destruction of villages and the disappearance of the Moslem
population consequent thereon doubtless has as its object to guard the
flanks and rear of the Greek army against any possible attack by the
population in the event of an early offensive, and perhaps even to
create in this region a political situation favourable to the Greek
Government.
In any event, the commission is of opinion that the atrocities reported
against Christians on the one hand, and Moslems on the other, are
unworthy of a civilised Government, and that in the region occupied by
the Greek army, the Greek authorities, who are alone in authority there,
are responsible, and, in the region under the Kemalist régime, the
Turkish authorities.
8. In view of the conclusions arrived at in the course of its enquiry,
the commission considers that it is not within its terms of reference to
suggest the measures which would remedy the state of affairs in the
region of Guemlek. The dispersion of nearly the whole of the Moslem
population of the kazas of Yalova and Guemlek is already a _fait
accompli_.
In order, however, to avoid the recurrence of similar happenings in the
future in other regions occupied by the Greek army, the commission
proposes that an inter-Allied gendarmerie be introduced into these
regions, or, at any rate, that Allied officers should be attached to the
various Greek commands, for the purposes of surveillance.
Finally, the commission expresses the hope that the 600 Moslems who are
still at Yalova, Ak-Keui and Samanli, should be authorised to take
refuge in Constantinople or its environs and that steps should be taken
to this effect.
_Great Britain._ _Italy._ _France._
G. M. FRANKS, E. ROLLETTO, G. VIEG,
_Major-General_. _Colonel_. _Lieut.-Colonel_.
_May 23, 1921._
DIARY OF THE INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION SENT TO ENQUIRE INTO INCIDENTS IN
THE REGIONS OF GUEMLEK AND YALOVA.
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