27 August 1922
Great Offensive: the breakthrough at Erkmentepe
The Turkish barrage resumes at 2.00 on 27 August and the infantry attack at 6.00, again at the seam between the Greek 1st and 4th Divisions. At 9.00 the IV Corps under Colonel Kemalettin Sami takes the peak of Erkmentepe, and the Greek line is broken.
At 10.30 the Greek I Corps orders a general withdrawal about 20 km to the north and the evacuation of Afyon. The order does not reach the Greek 1st Division, whose telephone line has been cut, and its front collapses at 13.30. By the evening Afyon is in Turkish hands and the Greek front is cut in two.
Sources
- Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922 (1973).
- Andrew Mango, Atatürk (1999).
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