The Greeks would first land in Anatolia in Smyrna, and when they returned it would cause a disaster.

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Sources:

Paradise Lost: Smryna 1922: The Destruction of a Christian City in the Islamic World by Giles Milton

Ataturk, Lloyd George and the Megali Idea: Cause and Consequence of the Greek Plan to Seize Constantinople from the Allies, June-August 1922 by Michael M. Finefrock

Great Britain and the Greco-Turkish War, 1912-1922 by Karl G. Larew

The Greco-Turkish War, 1920-1922 by Peter Kincaid Jensen

United States Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters, 1919-1924 by Henry P. Beers (1943)

Ataturk: Rebirth of a Nation by Andrew Mango

Atatürk: The Biography by Kinross, Patrick

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