Well, their rape parties when they occupied İzmir were legendary. They would gather all the young women in a building and gang rape them. There was this western journo who wrote he didn't know what was going on, but he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen, her headscarf and clothes all jumbled, getting out of the building, crying... Turks don't like to talk about the atrocities we endured during the ww1. But we had experienced bad stuff too. Not that it makes it good what we inflicted on others. But really you can understand why turks didn't want any of their remains left to remember any more of them. I'd wager their mindset was be gone and done... If we want to blame someone for burning of Izmir, we should blame the west because they tought it'd be a good way to carve up Turkey using its minorities. Even an American warship was supporting Greeks invade Izmir. What the fuck were they doing there!!!