Some would say it ended there too, on the night of September 13th, 1922. Against this curtain of fire, which blocks out the sky, are silhouetted the towers of the Greek churches, the domes of the mosques, and the flat square roofs of the houses … The sea glows a deep copper-red, and, from the densely packed mob of many thousands of refugees huddled on the narrow quay, between the advancing fiery death behind and the deep water in front, comes continuously such frantic screaming of sheer terror as can be heard miles away.Įverybody knows that the First World War started in the Balkans. What I see … is an unbroken wall of fire, two miles long, in which twenty distinct volcanoes of raging flames are throwing up jagged, writhing tongues to a height of a hundred feet. The description of the Smyrna fire is taken from Ionian Vision, Greece in Asia Minor 1919-1922, by Michael Llewellyn Smith, Hurst & Company, London, 1973 The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909, by Selim Deringil, IB Tauris, London NY, 1998Ī Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, by Taner Akcam, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006 Su Cilgin Turkler, by Turgut Ozakman, Bilgi Yayinevi, Istanbul, November 2005 (231st print run)Ī Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1989
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