Surely you can get over your hatred over the man who took Turkey away from Islamic fundamentalism.
Smyrna was a war. It was a retaking of the city of Izmir from Greece. The city was destroyed by fire.
If noting facts make me a cultist then ignoring them makes you a historian.
Your expertise revolves around falsifying historical fact and promoting an insanely brutish dictator who destroyed the lives of millions of Christians living in Asia Minor long before the Ottoman Muslims ever set foot there. "Dervish" somehow makes me wonder at your lack of "objectivity".
I suppose there is good to be said For Stalin too...Mustafa and Josef were buddies too.