1922 fire in Smyrna (now ?zmir, Turkey) during the Greco-Turkish War
Burning of Smyrna
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Plumes of smoke rising from Smyrna on 14 September 1922
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Date
| 13?22 September 1922
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Location
| Smyrna
,
Greek Zone of Smyrna
(today
?zmir
,
Turkey
)
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Also known as
| Great Fire of Smyrna
Smyrna Catastrophe
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Perpetrator
| See
Responsibility for the burning of Smyrna
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Outcome
| 80,000?400,000 refugees
Destruction of the Greek and Armenian quarters
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Deaths
| Estimated at 10,000?125,000
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The
burning of Smyrna
[3]
[4]
(
Greek
:
Καταστροφ? τη? Σμ?ρνη?
, "
Smyrna Catastrophe
";
Turkish
:
1922 ?zmir Yangını
, "1922 ?zmir Fire";
Armenian
:
????????? ??? ?????
,
Zmyu?nio Mets Hrdeh
) destroyed much of the
port city
of
Smyrna
(modern
?zmir
, Turkey) in September 1922. Eyewitness reports state that the fire began on 13 September 1922
[5]
and lasted until it was largely extinguished on 22 September. It began four days after the
Turkish military
captured the city on 9 September, effectively ending the
Greco-Turkish War
, more than three years after the
Greek landing of troops at Smyrna
. Estimated
Greek
and
Armenian
deaths resulting from the fire range from 10,000 to 125,000.
[6]
[7]
Approximately 80,000
[8]
to 400,000
[9]
Greek and Armenian
refugees
crammed the waterfront to escape from the fire. They were forced to remain there under harsh conditions for nearly two weeks. Turkish troops and irregulars had started committing massacres and atrocities against the Greek and Armenian population in the city before the outbreak of the fire. Many women were
raped
.
[10]
[11]
Tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian men were subsequently
deported
into the interior of
Anatolia
, where most of them died in harsh conditions.
[12]
[6]
[13]
The fire completely destroyed the Greek and Armenian quarters of the city; the
Muslim
and
Jewish
quarters escaped damage.
[14]
There are different accounts and eyewitness reports about who was
responsible for the fire
; most contemporary sources and modern scholars attribute it to Turkish soldiers setting fire to Greek and Armenian homes and businesses to eradicate the last traces of
Christian presence in Anatolia
,
[15]
while a few, Turkish or pro-Turkish,
[15]
[16]
sources hold that the Greeks and/or Armenians started the fire either to tarnish the Turks' reputation or deny them access to their former homes and businesses.
[15]
Testimonies from
Western
eyewitnesses
[17]
were printed in many Western newspapers.
[18]
[19]
The event is considered one of the most catastrophic urban fires in history and it is widely regarded as an act of
genocide
and a
war crime
; the event is still a source of tension between
Greece
and
Turkey
.
[1]
[2]
Winston Churchill
called it an "infernal orgy" and stated that: "For a deliberately planned and methodically executed atrocity, Smyrna must...find few parallels in the
history of human crime
".
[20]
Background
[
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]
The ratio of the
Christian
population to the
Muslim
population remains a matter of dispute, but the city was both a
multicultural
and
cosmopolitan
center until September 1922.
[21]
Different sources claim either Greeks or Turks as constituting the majority in the city. According to Katherine Elizabeth Flemming, in 1919?1922 the Greeks in Smyrna numbered 150,000, forming just under half of the population, outnumbering the Turks by a ratio of two to one.
[22]
Alongside Turks and Greeks, there were sizeable Armenian, Jewish, and
Levantine
communities in the city. According to Trudy Ring, before
World War I
the Greeks alone numbered 130,000 out of a population of 250,000, excluding Armenians and other Christians.
[23]
According to the
Ottoman
census of 1906/7, there were 341,436 Muslims, 193,280 Greek Orthodox Christians, 12,273 Armenian Gregorian Christians, 24,633 Jews, 55,952 Foreigners totalling to 630,124 people in ?zmir
Sanjak
(13 Kazas including the central
Kaza
);
[24]
the updated figures for 1914 gave 100,356 Muslims, 73.676 Greek Orthodox Christians, 10,061 Armenian Gregorians, 813 Armenian Catholics, 24,069 Jews for the central kaza of ?zmir.
[25]
[26]
According to the
U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
at the time,
Henry Morgenthau
, more than half of Smyrna's population was Greek.
[27]
The American
Consul General
in Smyrna at the time,
George Horton
, wrote that before the fire there were 400,000 people living in the city of Smyrna, of whom 165,000 were Turks, 150,000 were Greeks, 25,000 were Jews, 25,000 were Armenians, and 20,000 were foreigners?10,000 Italians, 3,000 French, 2,000 British, and 300 Americans.
[28]
Most of the Greeks and Armenians were Christians.
[29]
Moreover, according to various scholars, prior to the war, the city was a center of more Greeks than the ones who lived in
Athens
, the capital of Greece.
[30]
[31]
The Ottomans of that era referred to the city as
Infidel Smyrna
(
Gavur
?zmir
) due to the numerous Greeks and the large non-Muslim population.
[23]
[27]
[32]
[33]
[34]
[35]
[36]
[37]
[38]
Events
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Entry of the Turkish Army
[
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]
Greek troops evacuated Smyrna on the evening of Friday 8 September. The first elements of
Mustafa Kemal
's forces, a Turkish cavalry squadron, made its way into the city from the northern tip of the quay the following morning, establishing their headquarters at the main government building called
Konak
.
[39]
[40]
The
Hellenic Army
was in disarray and could not evacuate the city in an orderly manner, and fighting continued to the next day. According to the General of the 5th Cavalry Sidearmy
Fahrettin Altay
, on the 10th of September, Turkish forces belonging to the 2nd and the 3rd Cavalry regiments captured around 3,000 Greek soldiers, 50 Greek Officers, including a Brigadier Commander in the south of the city center who were retreating from Aydın.
[41]
Lieutenant Ali Rıza Akıncı, the first Turkish officer to hoist the
Turkish flag
in the
Liberation of ?zmir
on the 9th of September, mentions in his memoirs that his unit of 13 cavalrymen was ambushed by a volley of fire from 30-40 rifles from the Tuzako?lu factory after being saluted and congratulated by a French Marine platoon in the Halkapınar bridge. This volley fire killed 3 cavalrymen instantly and fatally wounded another. They were relieved by Captain ?erafettin and his 2 units which encircled the factory. Moreover, Captain ?erafettin, alongside Lieutenant Ali Rıza Akıncı were wounded by a grenade thrown by a Greek soldier in front of the Pasaport building. The Lieutenant was wounded lightly from his nose and his leg, and his horse from its belly.
[42]
The grenade thrower was also mentioned by George Horton as "
some fool threw a bomb
", and that the commander of this unit "
received bloody cuts about the head
".
[43]
A monument was later erected on the spot these cavalrymen had fallen. Military command was first assumed by
Mursel Pasha
, and then
Nureddin Pasha
,
General
of the
Turkish First Army
.
At the outset, the Turkish occupation of the city was orderly. Though the Armenian and Greek inhabitants viewed their entry with trepidation, they reasoned that the presence of the Allied fleet would discourage any violence against the Christian community. On the morning of 9 September, no fewer than twenty-one Allied warships lay at anchor in Smyrna's harbor, including the British flagship, the battleships
HMS
Iron Duke
and
King George V
, along with their escort of cruisers and destroyers under the command of Admiral
Osmond Brock
; the American destroyers
USS
Litchfield
,
Simpson
, and
Lawrence
(later joined by the
Edsall
); three French cruisers and two destroyers under the command of Admiral Dumesnil; and an Italian cruiser and destroyer.
[44]
[45]
As a precaution, sailors and marines from the Allied fleet were landed ashore to guard their respective diplomatic compounds and institutions with strict orders of maintaining neutrality in the event that violence would break out between the Turks and the Christians.
[46]
On 9 September, order and discipline began to break down among the Turkish troops, who began systematically targeting the Armenian population, pillaging their shops, looting their homes, separating the men from the women and carrying away and sexually assaulting the latter.
[47]
[48]
The Greek Orthodox
Metropolitan bishop
,
Chrysostomos
, was tortured and hacked to death by a Turkish mob in full view of French soldiers, who were prevented from intervening by their commanding officer, and much to Admiral Dumesnil's approval.
[47]
[49]
Refuge was sought wherever possible, including Paradise, where the American quarter was located, and the European quarters. Some were able to take shelter at the American Collegiate Institute and other institutions, despite strenuous efforts to turn away those seeking help by the Americans and Europeans, who were anxious not to antagonize or harm their relations with the leaders of the Turkish National movement. An officer of the Dutch steamer
Siantar
which was at the city's port during that period reported an incident that he has heard, according to him after the Turkish troops had entered the city a large hotel which had Greek guests was set on fire, the Turks had placed a machine gun at the opposite of the hotel's entrance and opened fire when people were trying to exit the burning building. In addition, he said that the crew were not allowed to go offshore after dusk because thugs were roaming the city's streets and it was dangerous.
[50]
Victims of the massacres committed by the Turkish army and irregulars were also foreign citizens. On 9 September, Dutch merchant Oscar de Jongh and his wife were murdered by Turkish cavalrymen,
[51]
while in another incident a retired British doctor was beaten to death in his home, while trying to prevent the rape of a servant girl.
[52]
[53]
Burning
[
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]
The first fire broke out in the late afternoon of 13 September, four days after Turkish nationalist forces had entered the city.
[54]
The blaze began in the Armenian quarter of the city (now the Basmane borough), and spread quickly due to the windy weather and the fact that no effort was made to put it out.
[55]
Author
Giles Milton
writes:
One of the first people to notice the outbreak of fire was Miss Minnie Mills, the director of the American Collegiate Institute for Girls. She had just finished her lunch when she noticed that one of the neighboring buildings was burning. She stood up to have a closer look and was shocked by what she witnessed. "I saw with my own eyes a Turkish officer enter the house with small tins of petroleum or benzine and in a few minutes the house was in flames." She was not the only one at the institute to see the outbreak of fire. "Our teachers and girls saw Turks in regular soldiers' uniforms and in several cases in officers' uniforms, using long sticks with rags at the end which were dipped in a can of liquid and carried into houses which were soon burning.
[56]
Others, such as Claflin Davis of the
American Red Cross
and Monsieur Joubert, director of the Credit Foncier Bank of Smyrna, also witnessed the Turks putting buildings to the torch. When the latter asked the soldiers what they were doing, "They replied impassively that they were under orders to blow up and burn all the houses of the area."
[57]
The city's fire brigade did its best to combat the fires but by Wednesday 13 September so many were being set that it was unable to keep up. Two firemen from the brigade, a Sgt. Tchorbadjis and Emmanuel Katsaros, would later testify in court witnessing Turkish soldiers setting fire to the buildings. When Katsaros complained, one of them commented, "You have your orders...and we have ours. This is Armenian property.
Our
orders are to set fire to it."
[58]
The spreading fire caused a stampede of people to flee toward the quay, which stretched from the western end of the city to its northern tip, known as the Point.
[55]
Captain Arthur Japy Hepburn, chief of Staff of the American naval squadron, described the panic on the quay:
Returning to the street I found the stampede from the fire just beginning. All of the refugees that had been scattered through the streets or stowed in churches and other institutions were moving toward the waterfront. Steadily augmenting this flow were those abandoning their homes in the path of the fire...It was now dark. The quay was already filled with tens of thousands of terrified refugees moving aimlessly between the customs house and the point, and still the steady stream of new arrivals continued, until the entire waterfront seemed one solid mass of humanity and baggage of every description.
[55]
The heat from the fire was so intense that Hepburn was worried that the refugees would die as a result of it.
[55]
The refugees' situation on the pier on the morning of 14 September was described by the British Lieutenant A. S. Merrill, who believed that the Turks had set the fire to keep the Greeks in a state of terror so as to facilitate their departure:
[6]
All morning the glow and then the flames of burning Smyrna could be seen. We arrived about an hour before dawn and the scene was indescribable. The entire city was ablaze and the harbor was light as day. Thousands of homeless refugees were surging back and forth on the blistering quay ? panic stricken to the point of insanity. The heartrending shrieks of women and children were painful to hear. In a frenzy they would throw themselves into the water and some would reach the ship. To attempt to land a boat would have been disastrous. Several boats tried and were immediately stopped by the mad rush of a howling mob...The crowds along the quay beyond the fire were so thick and tried so desperately to close abreast the men-of-war anchorage that the masses in the stifling center could not escape except by sea. Fortunately there was a sea breeze and the quay wall never got hot enough to roast these unfortunate people alive, but the heat must have been terrific to have been felt in the ship 200 yards away. To add to the confusion, the packs belonging to these refugees ? consisting mostly of carpets and clothing ? caught fire, creating a chain of bonfires the length of the street.
[59]
Turkish troops cordoned off the Quay to box the Armenians and Greeks within the fire zone and prevent them from fleeing.
[60]
Eyewitness reports describe panic-stricken refugees diving into the water to escape the flames and that their terrified screaming could be heard miles away.
[47]
By 15 September the fire had somewhat died down, but sporadic violence by the Turks against the Greek and Armenian refugees kept the pressure on the Western and Greek navies to remove the refugees as quickly as possible.
[61]
The fire was completely extinguished by 22 September,
[6]
and on 24 September the first Greek ships ? part of a flotilla organized and commandeered by the American humanitarian
Asa Jennings
? entered the harbor to take passengers away, following Captain Hepburn's initiative and his having obtained permission and cooperation from the Turkish authorities and the British admiral in command of the destroyers in the harbor.
[59]
Aftermath
[
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The entire city suffered substantial damage to its infrastructure. The core of the city had to be rebuilt. Today, 40 hectares of the former fire area is a vast park named
Kulturpark
serving as Turkey's largest open air exhibition center, including the
?zmir International Fair
, among others.
According to the first census in Turkey after the war, the total population of the city in 1927 was 184,254, of whom 162,144 (88%) were Muslims, the remainder numbering 22,110.
[62]
The evacuation was difficult despite the efforts of British and American sailors to maintain order, as tens of thousands of refugees pushed and shoved towards the shore.
[59]
Attempts to organize relief were made by the American officials from the
YMCA
and
YWCA
, who were reportedly robbed and later shot at by Turkish soldiers.
[63]
On the quay, Turkish soldiers and irregulars periodically robbed Greek refugees, beating some and arresting others who resisted.
[59]
Though there were several reports of well-behaved Turkish troops helping old women and trying to maintain order among the refugees,
[59]
these are heavily outnumbered by those describing gratuitous cruelty, incessant robbery and violence.
[61]
American and British attempts to protect the Greeks from the Turks did little good, with the fire having taken a terrible toll.
[61]
Some frustrated and terrified Greeks took their own lives, plunging into the water with packs at their back, children were stampeded, and many of the elderly fainted and died.
[61]
The city's Armenians also suffered grievously, and according to Captain Hepburn, "every able-bodied Armenian man was hunted down and killed wherever found, with even boys aged 12 to 15 taking part in the hunt."
[61]
The fire completely destroyed the Greek, Armenian, and
Levantine
quarters of the city, with only the Turkish and Jewish quarters surviving.
[47]
The thriving port of Smyrna, one of the most commercially active in the region, was burned to the ground. Some 150,000?200,000 Greek refugees were evacuated, while approximately 30,000 able-bodied Greek and Armenian men were deported to the interior, many of them dying under the harsh conditions or executed along the way.
[6]
The 3,000-year Greek presence on
Anatolia
's Aegean shore was brought to an abrupt end,
[6]
along with the
Megali Idea
.
[64]
The Greek writer Dimitris Pentzopoulos wrote, "It is no exaggeration to call the year '1922' the most calamitous in modern Hellenic history."
[6]
Casualties and refugees
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]
The number of casualties from the fire is not precisely known, with estimates of up to 125,000 Greeks and Armenians killed.
[6]
[7]
[66]
American historian Norman Naimark gives a figure of 10,000?15,000 dead,
[6]
while historian Richard Clogg gives a figure of 30,000.
[47]
Larger estimates include that of John Freely at 50,000 and Rudolf Rummel at 100,000.
[66]
Help to the city's population by ships of the
Hellenic Navy
was limited, as the
11 September 1922 Revolution
had broken out, and the most of the Greek army was concentrated at the islands of
Chios
and
Lesbos
, planning to overthrow the royalist government of Athens.
Although there were numerous ships from various Allied powers in the harbor of Smyrna, the vast majority of them cited neutrality and did not pick up Greeks and Armenians who were forced to flee from the fire and the Turkish troops retaking the city after the Greek army's defeat.
[67]
Military bands played loud music to drown out the screams of those who were drowning in the harbor and who were forcefully prevented from boarding Allied ships.
[68]
A
Japanese
freighter dumped all of its cargo and took on as many refugees as possible, taking them to the Greek port of
Piraeus
.
[69]
[70]
Many refugees were rescued via an impromptu relief flotilla organized by American missionary
Asa Jennings
.
[71]
Other scholars give a different account of the events; they argue that the Turks first forbade foreign ships in the harbor to pick up the survivors, but, under pressure especially from Britain, France, and the United States, they allowed the rescue of all the Christians except males 17 to 45 years old. They intended to deport the latter into the interior, which "was regarded as a short life sentence to slavery under brutal masters, ended by mysterious death".
[72]
The number of refugees changes according to the source. Some contemporary newspapers claim that there were 400,000 Greek and Armenian refugees from Smyrna and the surrounding area who received
Red Cross
aid immediately after the destruction of the city.
[9]
Stewart Matthew states that there were 250,000 refugees who were all non-Turks.
[14]
Naimark gives a figure of 150,000?200,000 Greek refugees evacuated.
[6]
Edward Hale Bierstadt and Helen Davidson Creighton say that there were at least 50,000 Greek and Armenian refugees.
[8]
Some contemporary accounts also suggest the same number.
[73]
The number of Greek and Armenian men deported to the interior of Anatolia and the number of consequent deaths varies across sources. Naimark writes that 30,000 Greek and Armenian men were deported there, where most of them died under brutal conditions.
[6]
Dimitrije đorđevi?
puts the number of deportees at 25,000 and the number of deaths at
labour battalions
at 10,000.
[13]
David Abulafia
states that at least 100,000 Greeks were forcibly sent to the interior of Anatolia, where most of them died.
[12]
Aristotle Onassis
, who was born in Smyrna and who later became one of the richest men in the world, was one of the Greek survivors. The various biographies of his life document aspects of his experiences during the Smyrna catastrophe. His life experiences were featured in the TV movie called
Onassis, The Richest Man in the World
.
[74]
During the Smyrna catastrophe, the Onassis family lost substantial property holdings, which were either taken or given to Turks as bribes to secure their safety and freedom. They became
refugees
, fleeing to Greece after the fire. However, Aristotle Onassis stayed behind to save his father, who had been placed in a Turkish concentration camp.
[75]
[76]
He was successful in saving his father's life. During this period three of his uncles died. He also lost an aunt, her husband Chrysostomos Konialidis, and their daughter, who were burned to death when Turkish soldiers set fire to a church in
Thyatira
, where 500 Christians had found shelter to avoid Turkish soldiers and the burning of Smyrna.
[74]
Responsibility
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Greek genocide
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|
Young Turk Revolution
,
Ottoman Greeks
,
Pontic Greeks
,
Ottoman Empire
|
|
Labour Battalions
,
Death march
,
Massacre of Phocaea
,
Evacuation of Ayvalik
,
?zmit massacres
,
Samsun deportations
,
Amasya trials
,
Burning of Smyrna
|
|
Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor
,
American Committee for Relief in the Near East
|
|
Young Turks
or
Committee of Union and Progress
Three Pashas
:
Talat
,
Enver
,
Djemal
Bahaeddin ?akir
,
Teskilati Mahsusa
or
Special Organization
,
Nureddin Pasha
,
Topal Osman
,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
|
|
Greco-Turkish War (1919?1922)
,
Greeks in Turkey
,
Population Exchange
,
Greek refugees
,
Armenian genocide
,
Sayfo
,
Istanbul trials of 1919?1920
,
Malta Tribunals
|
|
The question of who was responsible for starting the burning of Smyrna continues to be debated, with Turkish sources mostly attributing responsibility to Greeks or Armenians, and vice versa.
[77]
[78]
Other sources, on the other hand, suggest that at the very least, Turkish inactivity played a significant part on the event.
[77]
A number of studies have been published on the Smyrna fire. Professor of literature
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
's 1971 study
Smyrna 1922
concluded that the Turkish army systematically burned the city and killed Christian Greek and Armenian inhabitants. Her work is based on extensive eyewitness testimony from survivors, Allied troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats, relief workers, and Turkish eyewitnesses. A study by historian
Niall Ferguson
comes to the same conclusion. Historian Richard Clogg categorically states that the fire was started by the Turks following their capture of the city.
[47]
In his book
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922
, Giles Milton addresses the issue of the Smyrna Fire through original material (interviews, unpublished letters, and diaries) from the Levantine families of Smyrna, who were mainly of British origin.
[79]
The conclusion of the author is that it was Turkish soldiers and officers who set the fire, most probably acting under direct orders. British scholar
Michael Llewellyn-Smith
, writing on the Greek administration in Asia Minor, also concluded that the fire was "probably lit" by the Turks as indicated by what he called "what evidence there is."
[80]
Stanford historian
Norman Naimark
has evaluated the evidence regarding the responsibility of the fire. He agrees with the view of American Lieutenant Merrill that it was in Turkish interests to terrorize Greeks into leaving Smyrna with the fire, and points out to the "odd" fact that the Turkish quarter was spared from the fire as a factor suggesting Turkish responsibility. He also points out that arguments can be made that burning the city was against Turkish interests and was unnecessary and that responsibility may lie with Greeks and/or Armenians as they "had own their good reasons", pointing out to the "Greek history of retreating" and "Armenian attack in the first day of the occupation".
[81]
However, the
Greek army
departed from Smyrna on 9 September 1922,
[82]
when
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
and his army entered the city, while the fire began four days later, on 13 September 1922.
[83]
Nevertheless, Naimark concludes that "the fire almost assuredly was purposely set by the Turkish troops".
[84]
Horton and Housepian are criticized by
Heath Lowry
and
Justin McCarthy
, who argue that Horton was highly prejudiced and Housepian makes an extremely selective use of sources.
[85]
Lowry and McCarthy were both members of the now defunct
Institute of Turkish Studies
and have in turn been strongly criticized by other scholars for their
denial of the Armenian Genocide
[86]
[87]
[88]
[89]
and McCarthy has been described by
Michael Mann
as being on "the Turkish side of the debate."
[90]
Turkish author and journalist
Falih Rıfkı Atay
, who was in Smyrna at the time, and the Turkish professor Biray Kolluo?lu Kırlı agreed that Turkish nationalist forces were responsible for the destruction of Smyrna in 1922. More recently, a number of non-contemporary scholars, historians, and politicians have added to the history of the events by revisiting contemporary communications and histories. Leyla Neyzi, in her work on the oral history regarding the fire, makes a distinction between Turkish nationalist discourse and local narratives. In the local narratives, she points out to the Turkish forces being held responsible for at least not attempting to extinguish the fire effectively, or, at times, being held responsible for the fire itself.
[91]
Legacy and remembrance
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The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight ... We were in the harbour and they were on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. We used to turn the searchlight on them to quiet them. That always did the trick.
[93]
- Eric Ambler
's novel
The Mask of Dimitrios
(1939) details the events at Smyrna at the opening of chapter 3.
[94]
- The closing section of
Edward Whittemore
's
Sinai Tapestry
(1977) takes place during the burning of Smyrna.
[95]
- The Greek film
1922
(1978) portrays the suffering of ethnic Greeks held as prisoners following the Turkish army entering the city.
- Part of the novel
The Titan
(1985) by
Fred Mustard Stewart
takes place during the burning of Smyrna.
[96]
- Susanna de Vries
Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread
(2000)
[97]
is an account of Smyrna and the Greek refugees who landed at Thessaloniki.
- The novel
Middlesex
(2002) by American
Jeffrey Eugenides
opens with the burning of Smyrna.
[98]
- Mehmet Coral
's
?zmir: 13 Eylul 1922
("?zmir: 13 September 1922") (2003?)
[99]
addressed this topic;
[100]
it was also published in the Greek language by Kedros of Athens/Greece under the title: Πολλ?? ζω?? στη Σμ?ρνη (Many lives in ?zmir).
[101]
- Greek-American singer-songwriter
Diamanda Galas
's album
Defixiones: Will and Testament
(2003) is directly inspired by the Turkish atrocities committed against the Greek population at Smyrna. Galas is descended from a family who originated from Smyrna.
[102]
- Part of the novel
Birds Without Wings
(2004) by
Louis De Bernieres
takes place during the burning of Smyrna and its aftermath.
[103]
- Panos Karnezis
's 2004 novel
The Maze
deals with historical events involving and related to the fire at Smyrna.
[104]
- "Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City ? 1900?1922", a 2012 documentary film by Maria Iliou.
[105]
- Deli Sarkis Sarkisian's personal account of the fire of Smyrna is related in Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut's
The Scars He Carried, A Daughter Confronts The Armenian Genocide and Tells Her Father's Story
(2014).
[106]
- Smyrna in Flames
(2021) by
Homero Aridjis
, is a
historical novel
inspired by the written recollections and memories of the author's father, Nicias Aridjis; a captain in the Greek army during the Smyrna Catastrophe.
[107]
- The Greek film
Smyrna, my Beloved
(2021) follows the lives of a wealthy Greek family in Smyrna and their suffering and exodus after the Smyrna catastrophe.
- Fuar: a Counter-Memory
, a 2022 short animation by Ezgi Ozbakkalo?lu, juxtaposes drawn black and white images of the ruins of Smyrna with colorful animated impressions of the
urban park
that was later built on the site.
- Smyrna: Paradise is Burning, The Asa K. Jennings Story
, a 2022 documentary produced by Mike Damergis; won the Best Historical Film award in the Cannes World Film Festival (May 2022).
[108]
- The
Illinois Holocaust Museum
and the
Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center
hosted a 100th anniversary educational event on September 18, 2022 remembering the Fire of Smyrna and the Greek genocide.
[109]
See also
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References
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Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies
(5): 138.
doi
:
10.12681/syn.17435
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"Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City ? 1900?1922"
.
www.imdb.com
. 2012.
Archived
from the original on 1 January 2020
. Retrieved
15 October
2019
.
uses contemporaneous film footage and photographs, and the testimony of surviving witnesses, to tell the story of the city and its destruction.
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"Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut ? Deli Sarkis: The Scars He Carried"
.
www.scarshecarried.com
.
Archived
from the original on 11 January 2015
. Retrieved
22 October
2014
.
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Papadopoulos, Stephanos (18 December 2021).
"A Lifeline to Greece: On Homero Aridjis's "Smyrna in Flames"
"
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Los Angeles Review of Books
.
Archived
from the original on 2 September 2022
. Retrieved
10 September
2022
.
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Keane, Joseph C. (12 July 2022).
"Damergis' Film on Smyrna Catastrophe Tells Asa K. Jennings' Story"
.
The National Herald
.
Archived
from the original on 23 July 2022
. Retrieved
23 July
2022
.
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The Great Fire of Smyrna - The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered: 100th Anniversary Commemoration
, retrieved
18 January
2023
Further reading
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Personal accounts
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- Der-Sarkissian, Jack. "
Two Armenian Physicians in Smyrna: Case Studies in Survival
Archived
22 December 2015 at the
Wayback Machine
," in
Armenian Smyrna/Izmir: The Aegean Communities,
ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2012.
- Calonne, David Stephen. "Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and Smyrna 1922," in
Armenian Smyrna/Izmir: The Aegean Communities
.
- Ilias Chrissochoidis,
"The Burning of Smyrna: H. C. Jaquith's Report to Admiral Bristol,"
American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues
14 (Summer 2023).
History of Smyrna and the Fire
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- Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian.
Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971; 2nd ed. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1988.
- Georgelin, Herve.
La Fin de Smyrne: Du cosmopolitisme aux nationalismes
. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2005.
- Karagianis, Lydia,
Smoldering Smyrna,
Carlton Press, 1996;
ISBN
978-0-806-25114-1
.
- Llewellyn Smith, Michael.
Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919?1922
. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973.
- Mansel, Philip.
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
, London, John Murray, 2010; New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011.
- Milton, Giles.
Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922
. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Humanitarianism
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- Papoutsy, Christos.
Ships of Mercy: The True Story of the Rescue of the Greeks, Smyrna, September 1922
. Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall, 2008.
- Tusan, Michelle.
Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
- Ureneck, Lou.
The Great Fire: One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide
. New York: Ecco Press, 2015.
Memory and remembering
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- Kolluo?lu-Kırlı, Biray. "The Play of Memory, Counter-Memory: Building Izmir on Smyrna’s Ashes,"
New Perspectives on Turkey
26 (2002): 1?28.
- Morack, Ellinor. "Fear and Loathing in 'Gavur' Izmir: Emotions in Early Republican Memories of the Greek Occupation (1919?22),"
International Journal of Middle East Studies
49 (2017): 71?89.
- Neyzi, Leyla. "Remembering Smyrna/Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma,"
History and Memory
20 (2008): 106?127.
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