User blog comment:Arsonist Firefly54/Anniversary of the Great Fire of Smyrna/@comment-36832497-20180914094100

Utter bullshit. With our without the fires, Greeks burned hundreds of villages and small towns, along with some big cities such as Manisa and Bursa. Even if Smyrna wasn't burned, Turkey didn't want the people of a nation that caused billions of dollars (or Pound sterlins, international currency of the time) of collateral damage and tens of thousands of civilian deaths in its nation. Great Fire of Smyrna affected all quarters of the city equally, and contemporary sources mostly say it was started by Armenian Gangs and possibly with some cooperation with the Greek Army. All the ethnicities were equally affected.

Sources:
 * Panayi, Panikos (1998). Outsiders History of European Minorities. London: Continuum International Pub. Group. p. 111. ISBN 9780826436313. (Use Google Books to view in .pdf)
 * Salâhi R. Sonyel, Minorities and the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire, Ankara: TTK, 1993, p. 351; Gaston Gaillard, The Turks and Europe, London, 1921, p. 199.
 * Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City--A Review of Marjorie Housepian Dobkin's Work by Chris and Mary Papoutsy". www.helleniccomserve.com
 * Naimark. Fires of Hatred, p. 249.