Talk:Turkish War of Independence

Expelled populations

There are many references to 1M expelled Greeks here and other places. I wonder how did anyone reach to these figures. Is there a reliable source of population counts in May 1919 in what is now Turkiye? How did they get expelled specifically, dates, places and numbers for example. It is also known that many minorities have been leaving, and more escaping the war torn country for better prospects in the West. In fact, such migrations were taking place continuously since 1900 or so. It seems all this population movement is lumped under "expelled" category. Which seems misleading.

Distortion of civilian deaths

In the article, it appears that fictitious estimates, which are claimed to be the source of civilian deaths, are used in a distorted manner.

The numbers in the article are 264,000 Greeks, 60,000-250,000 Armenians and 15,000 Turkish civilians.

Leaving aside R. J. Rummel's imaginary biased number calculation, I will mention a technical problem. I quote the article you mentioned as the source of Turkish death. "I believe the minimum number killed was 15,000". It is clearly understood from this article that the selection of this source was made with racist and fascist thoughts and bad intentions. How can the sentence "I believe there are so many deaths" be evidence?

The so-called source (biased imaginary estimates on the R. J. Rummel paper) claims that 264,000 Greeks died between 1912-1922, therefore previous death estimates that have nothing to do with this war that started in 1919 cannot be attributed as if they were in this war, it is not technically possible, the time intervals are different, and the combatants The sides are different, that is, they are completely different events. 176.237.245.159 (talk) 00:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

The turkish supported size is so exaggrated

as you can understand the topic from the title,the turkish side is really,REALLY exaggrated.For example:the azerbaijan,aras and kars government were abolished before they communicated with ankara government. That "also" part likely done for showing turks were more than the entente.if that "also" part should be, i think theres a part for all anti turkist uprisings for the entente part.here is the all uprisings: Ali Batı Incident (11 May 1919 – 18 August 1919) Ali Galip incident (20 August 1919 – 15 September 1919) First bozkır Uprising (29 September 1919 – 4 October 1919) Second bozkır Uprising (20 October 1919 – 4 November 1919) First Ahmet Anzavur uprising (25 October 1919 – 30 November 1919) First Düzce Uprising (13 April 1920 – 31 May 1920) Second Düzce Uprising (19 July 1920 – 23 September 1920) Sheikh Ashraf Uprising (Hart Incident) (26 October 1919 – 24 December 1919) Kızılkuyu Incident (28 October 1919 - 29 October 1919) Battle of Apa (28 October 1919) Battle of Dinek (November 1, 1919) Battle of Demirkapı (November 15, 1919) Second Ahmet Anzavur Uprising (16 February 1920 – 19 April 1920) Kuvâ-yi İnzibâtiye (18 April 1920 - 25 June 1920) Third Ahmet Anzavur Uprising (10 May 1920 – 22 May 1920) First Yozgat Uprising/First Çapanoğlu Uprising (15 May 1920 – 27 August 1920) Second Yozgat Uprising/Second Çapanoğlu Uprising (5 September 1920 – 30 December 1920) Zile Rebellion (25 May 1920 – 21 June 1920) Aynacıoğulları Revolt (1918 - 21 November 1923) "Milli" Tribe Revolt (1 June 1920 – 8 September 1920) Cemil Çeto Incident (20 May 1920 – 7 June 1920) İnegöl Incident (20 July 1920 – 20 August 1920) Çopur Musa Uprising (in Afyon) (21 June 1920) Kula Incident (27 June 1920 – 28 June 1920) Konya Uprising (2 October 1920 – 22 November 1920) Demirci Mehmet Efe Uprising (1 December 1920 – 30 December 1920) Circassian Ethem Revolt (27 December 1920 – 23 January 1921) Koçgiri/Koçkiri Rebellion (6 March 1921 – 17 June 1921) Revenge Regiment Uprising (July 1920) Pontus Uprising (December 1920 - 6 February 1923) (From turkish WP) also i must say one thing more: The afghans didnt support turks,the turks supported afghans.In the agreement made with the Afghans, while it was written that the Turks would send officer teachers to the Afghans, it did not say that the Afghans would do anything for the Turks. This agreement was made with Afghanistan by the Ankara government in order to put the British in a difficult situation in Afghanistan and to increase their recognition. 78.174.205.204 (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Who made this numbers

At this point just say turks are the bad guys and the rest of them are good guys. Taking armenian death numbers from an armenian communist counsil member is not objective , saying 15000+ deaths in turkish side is so funny while writing 35000 thousand villages were burned to ground , making up numbers when it comes to entente but decraising incredibly when it comes to turkish side. 14:50, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

true bro, they are also exaggrating the turkish side. 78.174.205.204 (talk) 15:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Highly biased article controlled by anti-Turkish editors

This article, which is supposed to be an article about the independence struggle of the Turkish people and the founding of their own country from the partition by foreign imperialist forces, is full of biased and anti-Turkish sources about how the independence war was wrong and shouldn’t have happened. Not only that, but the frequent use of “genocides” to describe the events that happened during the War of Independence is also highly opinionated and biased.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong about describing the war crimes committed by the Turkish forces, but the fact that this article lacks even a single positive source about Turkish independence already showed the opinions of the biased editors about Turkey; the same for criticizing those historians who are sympathetic to the official Turkish opinion of the war like McCarthy and forbids them to have any input in the article, but allowing the source of a biased neoconservative historian Rummel, who has often been criticized for his gross exaggeration of numbers of excess deaths under anti-western regimes to be considered valid.

If anything, the whole article needs to be completely rewritten to include the sources from historians who have perspectives from both sides of the war. LeonChrisfield (talk) 10:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

That's why there is a "neutrality is disputed" temp for now. ภץאคгöร 15:04, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments; we can do little about a general grievance. If there are specific passages that you find problematic, or the sources offered are not being accurately summarized, please detail the issues on this page.

"Controlled by anti-Turkish editors" is a serious accusation requiring serious evidence.

The general academic and scholarly consensus(and increasingly governments) is that the term "genocide" is appropriate for the Armenian genocide. Opposition to this term(including by the Turkish government who expends significant effort to promote their view internationally, teach it to their citizens, and criminalizes it because it is integral to the founding of the modern Turkish state) is discussed at Armenian genocide denial. 331dot (talk) 15:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I am not an Armenian/Greek genocide denialist. I just believe this page should be more balanced with sources reflecting Turkish perspectives on the history. As for the claim of the page being controlled by anti-Turkish editors, I meant I believe the editors who primarily writes the page only selects sources from historians who have a grievance against Turkey, instead of trying to be objective. LeonChrisfield (talk) 18:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

If there are indeed anti-Turkish passages in the article please point them out in the discussion section so we can have an article agreeable to all contributors. This article is intended to tell the Turkish perspective of the war, while the Greco-Turkish War intended to tell the Greek side. I have reservations with this status quo, Wikipedia articles must strive to concisely tell the story of the conflict from every belligerents' perspective. In a conflict as large and complex as the Turkish War of Independence, this is a difficult challenge. That said, I put effort to tell the Turkish perspective by incorporating information from sources like Ryan Gingeras' The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire and Andrew Mango's biography of Atatürk.

If some facts or key pieces of information about the conflict with respect to the Turks is missing, extended confirmed contributors are more than welcome to incorporate information. I personally would welcome any DM for sources on this topic, and we can work out ways to incorporate them in this article (Turkish or English works with me). Benlittlewiki (talk) 22:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I see that you are a Turkish person. I am sure you are more familiar with the Turkish history than me, and so probably have access to relevant sources to counter the excessively biased parts of the article. I found this sentence quite misleading and dubious: "The Turkish Nationalist Movement carried out massacres and deportations to eliminate native Christian populations—a continuation of the Armenian genocide and other ethnic cleansing operations during World War I. Following these campaigns of ethnic cleansing, the historic Christian presence in Anatolia was destroyed, in large part, and the Muslim demographic had increased from 80% to 98%." There was a mutually agreed population exchange between Greece and Turkey, which 1.6 million Greeks left Turkey for Greece. The population exchange contributed to a significant decline of the Christian population. But the sentence is twisted into making people believe that the TNM (The Turkish Nationalist Movement) genocided them. LeonChrisfield (talk) 12:13, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Even if we take the stats by Rummel, which are highly questionable due to his neoconservative biases and having a history of overestimating the deaths caused by anti-western regimes, 260k Greek civilians were murdered by Turkish army in the war. Therefore, most Greeks left Turkey as part of the population exchange, not genocided by the TNM. LeonChrisfield (talk) 12:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I would recommend creating a new discussion topic over whether to add a note to that number in the infobox indicating that the source is controversial or not good enough. Consensus would have to be established for this in the thread. You can help your case by finding another calculation who's source has better methodology. Benlittlewiki (talk) 02:08, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, some actors of the Turkish national movement engaged well documented acts of ethnic cleansing and/or genocide in the war before the population exchange, this is talked about in the article, though it could be expanded upon, especially Topal Osman's operations in the Pontus region. Benlittlewiki (talk) 02:11, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

30.000 buildings + 250 villages burnt to ground by Greeks but only 15.000 Turk civilians killed?

Yeah, that really makes sense... Crxyzen (talk) 15:59, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, and they use Erwin Rummel's "work" as a source. BaharatlıCheetos2.0'ın devamı (talk) 16:17, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Capitalise "unionist"

Benlittlewiki, unionist is a descriptive noun for a class of people that belong to or are active in a union movement. As such, it is not a proper noun and should not be capitalised. Arguing to capitalise because is refers to such people from a particular movement falls to MOS:SIGNIFCAPS. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:02, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

In this context, Unionist is not a descriptive noun, it is a proper noun; it specifically describes someone affiliated with the Committee of Union and Progress. It is similar to capitalizing "Republican: when talking about members of the Republican Party in the United States instead of lowercase republicans which refers to a general political movement for a republican form of government. Therefore, it must be capitalized. Benlittlewiki (talk) 00:14, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Are we sure?

Are we literally sure that SRAF (Southern Russia) supported Entente? @Benlittlewiki BaharatlıCheetos2.0'ın devamı (talk) 10:21, 13 July 2024 (UTC)