JAMES G. HARBORD

The report was on the Turkish brutality in Post WW I Smyrna against the Greek population. Several hundred thousand Greeks were killed. This was after the Armenian Genocide during WWI. The irony was that America, England and France all agreed that Turkey should administer the Turkish port city of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia which was inhabited by a substantial Greek Orthodox Christian population in Muslim Turkey. In addition to the problem of a religious minority, the Turks had then, and many still have today, a desire for revenge against the Greeks. Greece had been a province of the Turkish Ottoman Empire for centuries until the Greek revolt of 1821. Ethnic Greeks living in Turkey, with an equally paranoidal preoccupation in history did not make very good citizens of Turkey.

The report was on the Turkish brutality in Post WW I Smyrna against the Greek population. Several hundred thousand Greeks were killed. This was after the Armenian Genocide during WWI. The irony was that America, England and France all agreed that Turkey should administer the Turkish port city of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia which was inhabited by a substantial Greek Orthodox Christian population in Muslim Turkey. In addition to the problem of a religious minority, the Turks had then, and many still have today, a desire for revenge against the Greeks. Greece had been a province of the Turkish Ottoman Empire for centuries until the Greek revolt of 1821. Ethnic Greeks living in Turkey, with an equally paranoidal preoccupation in history did not make very good citizens of Turkey.