Greco-Turkish War Explained

There have been several Greco-Turkish Wars:

• Orlov revolt (1770) Greeks' first major, organized Revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the support of Russia
• Greek War of Independence (1821–1830), against the Ottoman Empire
• Undeclared war in 1854 during the Crimean War, with Greek irregulars invading Ottoman Epirus (Epirus Revolt of 1854) and Thessaly
• Greece and the Ottoman Empire fought a brief border war in Thessaly during the Great Eastern Crisis, the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the 1878 Macedonian rebellion, the Epirus Revolt of 1878 and the Cretan revolt (1878)
• First Greco-Turkish War (1897) during the Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)
• Greek front of the First Balkan War (1912–13)
• World War 1 (1914-18) Greece and the Ottoman Empire were in the opposing alliances and fought in the Mediterranean and the Balkans Theatre in the Battle of Imbros and during the Allied occupation of Constantinople
• Second Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), also called the Asia Minor Campaign or the Western Front of the Turkish War of Independence

This term may also refer to the medieval predecessor civilisations of Greece and Turkey:

• Byzantine–Seljuk wars (1046–1243)
• Byzantine–Ottoman wars (1299–1479)

See also

• Aegean dispute
• Greece–Turkey relations
• Turkish invasion of Cyprus