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Turning point · The Great War, 1914–1918
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15 May 1919 — Greek troops land under Allied warships to claim western Anatolia. The Ottoman partition ignites the Turkish War of Independence — proof, within months, that the peacemakers’ map would not draw itself.
This is one scene of Chapter 12 — The Peace That Failed in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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