The Greco-Turkish War & The Turkish War Of Independence - First Phase 1919 I THE GREAT WAR 1920

Sign up for Curiosity Stream and Nebula: https://curiositystream.com/thegreatwar The Ottoman Empire was among the losing powers of World War 1 and left a power vacuum after the armistice of Mudros. The Great Powers had already made plans for the territory beforehand and now Greece had ambitions to take over the parts of Turkey where Greeks lived.   » 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  Criss, Nur Bilge: Occupation during and after the War (Ottoman Empire) , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2015-08-05 https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/occupation_during_and_after_the_war_ottoman_empire Leonhard, Jörn. Der überforderte Frieden. Versailles und die Welt 1918-1923 (CH Beck, 2018). Macmillan, Margaret. The Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World (London: John Murray, 2001). Karsh, Efraim and Inari Karsh. Empires of the Sand (London: Harvard UP, 1999). Llewllyn Smith, Michael. Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor (London: Hurst, 2016 (1973)) Gerwarth, Robert. The Vanquished. Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 (Penguin, 2017). Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace (New York: Avon, 1989) McMeekin, Sean. The Ottoman Endgame (Penguin, 2015) » 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: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig   Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold   Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020