Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "CYPRUS: DEMONSTRATOR SHOT DEAD BY TURKISH TROOPS" video.
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@Greekdudea1a The last main battle between greeks and Turks:
Battle of Dumlupınar in 1922
Turkish side:
98,670 infantry
5,286 cavalry
323 artillery
0 (Zero) reserve
Greek side:
130,000 infantry
1,300 cavalry
348 artillery
70,000 reserve
Greek side also had more machine guns, ammunations, trucks, supplies, planes etc and greeks were positioned very well in a valley between two mountains and many hills. Even so the Turkish side was getting ready for a great offensive to end 3 years long greek campaign of invading Anatolia. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk decided to attack from the mountain to the south of greek trenches due greeks were very lightly defending that mountain because greek generals thought an assault from there wasn't possible!! He planned a great offensive from there while 2 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry division was going to penetrate through greek army according to spearhead doctrine, capture a series of hills in the valley and cut the greek army into 4 pieces!! But majority of Turkish soldiers climbed the mountain in the last night to avoid detection by greek planes and charged with first lights. Cavalry division successfully penetrated through greek lines and acted as a 'blitzkrieg' unit while completely destroying greek communication and supplies lines in 20 km behind the greek army. They also damaged the greek moral greatly due when greek soldiers saw Turkish cavalry so behind their lines they naively thought their front lines were fallen to Turks while the engagement was just starting and they started to retreat due they couldn't also communicate with their command!! On the other hand Turkish infantry had serious trouble penetrating through greek army for obvious reasons, first many of them were already tired because they climbed the mountain few hours ago and using infantry as spearheads in rough terrain which is full of hills was a little extreme military tactic even for us Turks even so infantry divisions penetrated most of greek army and captured a series of hills while greek army was using a little gap left in northern side to retreat and run from this slaughter!! Then cavalry division who were behind greek lines learned about the little gap left, charged upon retreating greeks and encircled them by capturing several hills!! So more than half of greek army got encircled between mountains and Turkish soldiers in the first day of battle, they fought only 3 more days then surrendered. At the end the great offensive only lasted 4 days, greek casualties were more than 60% while Turkish side only lost 10%!! Greeks could never reorganize in Anatolia again and retreated to the ports very irregularly while attacking Turkish civilians and burning Turkish villages and cities including even Smyrna because they couldn't stomach that their 3 years long campaign ended in only 4 days!! Here is a neutral French historian proves who burned Smyrna with using dozens of French sources:
http://www.academia.edu/35312332/Revisiting_the_Fire_of_Izmir
Another important fact that there were 6 million Greeks in 1920 while there were 10 million Turks that's how greeks could form a bigger army than we Turks due we were constantly fighting for 12 years including a war world but even if there were twice more greek soldiers the greek army still got badly slaughtered!! It is because you greeks are good at making nude sculptures while we Turks are many times better soldiers so you have absolutely no chance against us today while there are 80 million Turks against 10 million greeks!! So you greeks should just forget about defeating us ever again due you missed your last and only chance when we Turks were the weakest in last 1000 years long Anatolia history after this point you could only get slaughtered even way worse than Battle of Dumlupınar...
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