Turkish Defence Team

MASSACRE. BY BARBARIAN GREEK. (CYPRUS) Murder in a Turkish Village. (1964) Printed 2013 by Don McCullin born 1935. Purchased with the assistance of the artist rooms endowment, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and Tate Members 2014. (This is a photographic evidence) Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mccullin-murder-in-a-turkish-village-ar01186   A photo taken by McCullin showing Nevcihan Uşum, a Turkish Cypriot woman whose wife was killed by Greek Cypriot forces in 1964, and her son Kublai Uşum, who held out his hand to her, and other relatives crying. Source: https://t.co/V8oFDuwDFb  A photo taken by McCullin showing Nevcihan Oluşum, a Turkish Cypriot woman whose wife was killed by Greek Cypriot forces in 1964, and her son Kublai Oluşum, who held out his hand to her, and other relatives crying. Source: https://t.co/V8oFDuwDFb The Cyprus Civil War,Limassol, Cyprus 1964,printed 2013 Don McCullin born 1935 artist rooms Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. (T...

The occupying forces, who shared the rich lands of the Ottoman Empire,would unwittingly become entrenched and powerful again, and at the beginning of the modern century they would witness the birth of a new baby. May 19, 1919: The Beginning of the Turkish National Liberation War. The defeated Ottoman had signed the Mondros agreement with the Allied forces, relinquishing almost all of its territories, except for a small Anatolian heartland, to Britain, Italy, France and Greece. Photo: The delegation that signed the agreement on behalf of the Ottoman Mondros agreement, designed to decimate Ottoman, was being implemented step-by-step with the final insult to Ottomans coming with the invasion of Izmir and a violent advance into Anatolia by Greeks.  A 1927 version of map of the Treaty of Sèvres used by the GNAT (later restored) Civilian resistance began building up against the occupation.(Not effectual) Kemal, whose public and military standing was solidified as the military commander w...