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Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek
A rare primary-source work from the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War, this 1921 report records an international investigation into violence in Yalova, Gemlik, and the Izmit Peninsula. Compiled for the British government, it offers a stark, on-the-ground view of civilian suffering and contested power in a shattered region.
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Reports on atrocities in the districts of Yalova and Guemlek and in the Ismid Peninsula : Presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty
by Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek
About the author
This is not an individual author but a temporary international inquiry body: the Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek. Its best-known work is the 1921 volume Reports on atrocities in the districts of Yalova and Guemlek and in the Ismid Peninsula, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office and presented to the British Parliament.
The commission investigated violence against civilians during the Greco-Turkish War in western Anatolia. Contemporary and reference sources describe it as an inter-allied mission involving British, French, American, and Italian officers, with Red Cross delegate Maurice Gehri playing a leading role in the inquiry. Because the book is a formal report by a commission rather than a personal memoir or study, biographical details are limited and are better understood through the historical event it documents than through the lives of named authors.
Today, the report is valued mainly as a primary historical source. Readers often turn to it for firsthand evidence of how outside observers described atrocities, displacement, and village destruction in 1921, as well as for insight into how governments and relief officials tried to document violence in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.