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TNT POW Reports: Turks in Greek Hands (1920-1923)/Part XXVIII-H

//Ed. Note: In this the final portion of his remarkable report,
pharmacist Muzaffer Akpınar writes about other POW 
camps, his role in Athens on the committee that organized 
the Greek-Turkish POW exchange in 1923 and he delivers
a searing condemnation of Greece and the Greeks, as
perhaps might be expected based on his experiences.//

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Since we did not have any contact with other prison camps we didn’t 
get any information about them.  At the end, when the Red Crescent 
representative Muzaffer Bey came to run the prisoner exchage he put 
myself and Dr. Abidin Bey, another prisoner, on his staff as secretaries.  
So we had passes to move about freely and learn what we could.  We 
contacted many prisoners and toured the other camps and went to 
some prisons. We were assigned to accumulate information about the 
Greek terror that went on and we found that the treatment meted out 
at other camps was the same as that inflicted on us at our camp.  
Wherever we went there were examples of this terror.

Of the approximately 2,000 people they arrested from eastern Thrace, 
about 700 had been thrown into the sea by the time they reached Crete.   
The remaining individuals were taken in wretched condition to Izzeddin
Fortress and they saw that each ensuing day their numbers on the island 
dwindled. 

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                  Izzeddin Fortress at Souda Bay, Crete

Seven prisoners from Sivrihisar escaped but were captured.  After 
these poor fellows were tortured in prisons on Sakız and Midilli islands, 
they were taken to Sisam island.  The Greeks hoped that any trace of 
them would be lost, but our representative Muzaffer Bey made 
numerous inquiries and investigations and discovered where they were, 
saving them.

The Turkish girls who Greek officers forceably took from Anatolia were 
made to convert to Christianity and then abandoned.  We witnessed the 
wretched state of these poor girls, who knew nothing of inauspicious 
Greek customs nor the shameful Greek language.  Our representive took 
the initiative to have a number of them return with us to the homeland.  
These girls had borne many children, who were being housed in a Greek
 house for orphans and in churches, where they were converted to 
Christianity.

The fate of the prisoners at Nastasmos, Makovenisa and on Milos Island 
was known only to themselves and to God because since these places 
were remote we had no information about them.  Nevertheless, we heard 
from Greek soldiers that because of the filthy conditions they lived in 
they developed illnesses like diarrhea.  Consequently, each day many 
died a horrible death because of the lack of any sort of humane care. 

All of these abominable deeds and terror were covered up by the 
prisoner exchange conditions that were accepted at the peace conference 
that resulted from the blow inflicted on the traitorous enemy by the heroic 
Turkish Army.  The prisoner exchange began and we we loaded onto 
ships.  But because of some political tensions that arose, the ships were 
diverted to Crete, where we were off-loaded at Kandia.  We remained 
there for 21 days, after which we arrived at Klazomen (Urla quarantine 
island) on 2 April 1923, planting our wet feet on the sacred soil of our 
beloved motherland with unbridled joy.

Pharmacist Muzaffer Süreyya

Summary:  It would be appropriate to look more closely at this nation, 
the government of Snake-istan, which is a focal point for hypocrisy and 
intrigue. If it were necessary to identify a word that would carry the 
meaning of lying, swindling, hypocrisy and intrigue, falsity, dishonor, 
terror and vileness, then the word ‘Greek’ would immediately come to 
mind to capture the essense of this ill-omened definition. 

Edremit – 19 June 1923  Pharmacist M.S.

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//END of PART XXVIII-H//

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