19 May 1919: Mustafa Kemal landed at Samsun—Ordered there by the sultan's government to oversee the disarming & dismantling of the Ottoman Army, Kemal & his handpicked officers organized the Turkish National Movement, aiming to prevent the Entente's partition of Anatolia & repel/expel the Greek army from Smyrna; the Turks launched a genocide against the local Pontic Greek population.
Lest we forget.
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