July 1921
Kütahya: the Greek summer offensive
King Constantine comes to Anatolia to lead the offensive. A reinforced Greek army of nine divisions attacks the Turkish line of Afyon, Kütahya and Eskişehir, aiming to take the railways that join the three towns and to cut Anatolia in two. İsmet Pasha's Western Front holds the line with fewer men and guns.
The Greek army breaks through the Turkish positions in the south, takes Afyon and then Kütahya, and prepares to turn north along the railway towards Eskişehir.
Sources
- Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922 (1973).
- Andrew Mango, Atatürk (1999).
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