Depicted here in a 1922 CE oil painting, the Turkish capture of Smyrna now Izmir (known as the Liberation of Izmir in Turkish) on 9 September 1922 CE, following the successful Great Smyrna Offensive which effectively sealed the Turkish victory and ended the war. Smyrna was the location of Turkish civilian armed resistance against the occupation of Anatolia by the Allies first begun on 15 May 1919 CE. (Attaturk & the War of Independence Museum, Ankara)
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