[Destro]

A superior Greek army? I guess Greece can be described as the Israel of the Balkans a small country with a disproportionately strong army but Greece was never superior in military manpower to the Turks who outnumbered them. As the books I have linked indicate, the superpowers colluded to the Turkish "victory".

In addition the Turks did not expel an army-a common Balkan occurrence which would create no lasting animus. The Turks liquidated 99% of their territory of Greeks and Armenians who lived in Asia Minor for 3,000 year plus.

You are correct in that August 30th is the Turkish anniversary but the Turks are silent to the other anniversary when in September of 1922 Kemal ordered the city burned to the ground and its Christians killed off or expelled.

[Aric2000]

And the Greeks tried to clear all of thier territories of Turks as well.

All's fair in Love and War as the saying goes.

AS I said before, learn from it and move on.

ALL parties have enough blood on their hands for the guilt to be spread evenly all around.

Learn from it and make sure that it doesn't happen again, is the ONLY piece of advice and lesson that you people should be taking from this.

Again, this continued hatred does nothing but create the possibility of it happening again, shows poorly on you possibly learning from it, and when it does happen again, who will you blame for it?

I'll point right at you and say, hey, I told you to learn from it and move on, but you insisted on holding onto your grudges and revisionist history.