American Accounts Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna by the Kemalist Turkish Forces, September 1922 Ghetto remembered as “General Storm

remembered as “General Storm

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American Accounts Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna by the Kemalist Turkish Forces, September 1922 Ghetto remembered as “General StormBy Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou (Editor) In September, 1922, the thriving, cosmopolitan city of Smyrna was captured and put to the torch by Turkish forces, led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. This was the culmination of a war that resulted in the transformation of the Ottoman Empire into the modern Turkish state. The destruction of the middle class Greek and Armenian quarters of the city, and the slaughter or expulsion of its inhabitants, represented the