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>Yes. The main difference being that Greece didn't invade anyone.... Actually Greece Invaded Turkey in WW-I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(

• twobits 11y ago
  Well, not exactly. You get a better context if you say that the two countries have a sweet little history going back to byzantium, where turks invaded, greeks invaded, turks invaded, greeks invaded, turks invaded,... PS: And yes, it was the ottoman empire, etc, but that's semantics.
  • afsina 11y ago
    Does that change the fact that this was an invasion? Last time Ottomans invaded Anatolia was 12th century. Current Greece was invaded in end of 15th century. And Greece tried to invade Anatolia in 20th century.
• coldtea 11y ago
  Context, please. Greece, the nation, emerged after liberating its land from centuries of Turkish (then Ottoman) occupation (with several failed smaller scale attempts at independence in between). After the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, the succeeding regime, the "new turks" who created Turkey, started an ethnic cleansing attempt, killing millions of Greek Pontians, Armenians, Assyrians etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide After a decade of this happening, Greece (and with the assistance and encouragement of Western powers) invaded Asia Minor, where 1.5 million of Greek ethnicity were still living among the other local populations. Then the Greek army had the not so brilliant idea to march forward to the inner Turkey, and they got slashed. A massacre followed, with the Turkish army slaghtering the Greek population of Asia Minor (including in a great fire), and creating huge swarths of immigrants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna So, I'd say Greece paid quite hard for that "invasion", but also that: a) 1.5 million of your people living in a place, b) some centuries of occupation, c) a decade of genocide, more or less justifies some kind of military campaign.
  • afsina 11y ago
    Context was that Greek army invaded Asia minor during WWI, period. The reasons of the invasion is always justifiable by the invader. That land was invaded by Turkish Tribes during 12th century. So historical occupation that far cannot be justified with 20th century invasion. Greek people living in the invaded areas were around %18 of the population. Besides, Atrocities goes both ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalova_Peninsula_massacres_(1920%E2%80%9321) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalova_Peninsula_massacres_(19... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%9322)#Greek_massacres_of_Turks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tripolitsa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tripolitsa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarino_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarino_massacre Edited for wording and some corrections.