Yunanistan'ın uyguladığı Türk sürgünleri (1919-1923)
Özet
Greeks exiled 1.200.000 people to the internal part of Anatolia, 44.000 to Greece from the territory that they occupied in Western Anatolia in order to find a way to annex them by obtaining the majority of population over there. A great number of Greek population which had brought from Greece and islands were settled the territory where Turkish people had been exiled from. Thus, it is understood that in order to reach their main objectives, Greeks had a secondary objectives such, as making the National resistance which had been started against the occupation be ineffective, damaging the logistic support of the resistance, creating a way to make new fields to be occupied and forming a mechanism which would serve their cause by removing the existing civilian authority. Greeks applied the exile policy in all occupied territory. Violence and its consequences which were used as effective instrument were their methods. Exiles that was carried out by Greeks had been a devastated effects on the Anatolian people. When the Greeks pull out from Turkish territory, consequences of occupation became clear that the civilian which had been forced to leave their home and possessions, had been murdered, children had been lost, families had been separated and people had become physiologically disorder. The civilians in the caps in the Greece forced to leave under grave conditions, most of them died as the result of Greek treatment against the international law.