`Copied from my Talk Page so that we can all discuss A.Garnet's point  :Hi Richard, in the afd you state ``It appears that the occupation of Smyrna/Izmir was not just a single event in the war but rather the major focal event of the war. If this is not true, I would reconsider my position.``   :The Occupation of Izmir was only one part of the war. It can be broken down in the occupation of Izmir, First Battle of İnönü, Second Battle of İnönü, Battle of Sakarya, and the Battle of Dumlupınar, and finally the Great Fire of Smyrna. These are all significant stages of the Greco-Turkish war. The current level of content should not detract from the fact that it is a notable part of the war which deserves its own article. Thanks,    Aaargh!  I'm stung again by not having read enough articles on this subject.  I think A.Garnet makes a valid point.  However, if you look at the articles for the various battles that he mentions, each article is very short.  I would say that we need to be consistent.  Either all the battles should be merged into this article or each significant battle should be dealt with separately (and hopefully expanded to have a bit more content).  This second option argues for keeping the Occupation of Izmir as a separate article.  It is no less significant than the other battles.  However, I think that there is also an inconsistency between the Occupation of Izmir which spans a 3 year period of tiem and the battles which are much shorter in duration.  It seems that there was very little about the Occupation of Izmir that is notable between its capture by the Greeks and its recapture by the Turks.  (Yeah, there was the creation of the university but that's not enough to tip the scale.)  It would seem to me that, if we were to keep the battles as separate articles, then we should break apart the Occupation of Izmir into Greek capture of Smyrna and Turkish re-capture of Smyrna (of course, I'm open to suggestions for better titles).     `