Yunan Tahribatına Amerikalı Misyonerlerin Bakışı ve Bir Raporun Arka Planı

Abstract

Of the foreign service and aid agencies whose number increased towards the end of Ottoman Empire, especially American missionaries maintained their existence during the First World War and The Turkish War of Independence, thus took part in some political and social events. The relations between Near East Relief (NER) and Ankara Government during the Turkish War of Independence is revealed in a report prepared by the two relief workers of this organization. The relations that the Ankara Government had formerly established with the two relief workers of NER, Annie Allen and Florence Billings, later conduced to the preparation of a report that was based on observation and interviews illustrating the demolition in seven vilages of Sivrihisar providence caused by the Greeks during their retreat. This report is important in that it indicates the efforts of Ankara Government to make its cause known throughout the world and it reflects the Greek destruction from a realistic and neutral point of view.