Turning Point in the Greco-Turkish War - Battles of Sakarya and İnönü I THE GREAT WAR 1921
Sign up for Curiosity Stream and get Nebula bundled in and SAVE 26%: https://curiositystream.com/thegreatwar The Greek Army was desperately trying to continue their offensive into Turkey among waning Allied support, Eleftherios Venizelos losing the Greek election and a monkey bite killing young Greek King Alexander of Greece. With their backs to the wall, the Turkish Army under Mustafa Kemal was able to turn the tide at the Battle of Sakarya. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show. » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link) » SOURCES Primary Sources - Danglis, Panagiotis: Memoirs, ii. - Edib, Halide: The Turkish Ordeal. Being the further memoirs of Halide Edib. - Gazi M. Kemal, Nutuk-Söylev, Cilt II: 1920–1927, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi - Gehri, Maurice: « Mission d enquête en Anatolie (12-22 mai 1921) », Revue internationale de la Croix rouge, tome LII, no 227, 15 juillet 1921, p. 721-735. - Toynbee, Arnold: The Western Question in Greece and Turkey. A Study in the Contact of Civilizations, Boston 1922. Secondary Sources - Erickson, Edward J.: The Turkish War of Independence. A Military History, 1919-1923, Santa Barbara 2021. - Gedeon, Paschalidou, and Dima-Dimitrou: A Concise History of the Campaign in Asia Minor. - Glasneck, Johannes: Kemal Atatürk und die moderne Türkei, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010. - Llewelyn-Smith, Michael: Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922, 1973. - Shaw, Bernard: From Empire to Republic, vol. 2, part 1, 1977. » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheGreatWarYT Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_great_war Twitter: https://twitter.com/WW1_Series Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel » OTHER PROJECTS 16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (https://www.patreon.com/Zalezsky) Research by: Joé Voncken Fact checking: Joé Voncken Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2021
