Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yalova Peninsula massacres" in English language version.
The British journalist and historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, who was war correspondent for the "Manchester Guardian" on the Yalova Peninsula from April until 3 July 1921, suggests a total of 300 Muslim victims.
In total only thirty-five were reported to have been killed, wounded, beaten, or missing. This is in line with the observations of Arnold Toynbee, who declared that one to two murders were sufficient to drive away the population of a village.
To protect their flanks from harassment, Greek military authorities then encouraged irregular bands of armed men to attack and destroy Turkish populations of the region they proposed to abandon. By the time the Red Crescent vessel arrived at Yalova from Constantinople in the last week of May, fourteen out of sixteen villages in that town's immediate hinterland had been destroyed, and there were only 1,500 survivors from the 7,000 Moslems who had been living in these communities.
'The members of the Commission consider that, in the part of the kazas of Yalova and Guemlek occupied by the Greek army, there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Moslem population. This plan is being carried out by Greek and Armenian bands, which appear to operate under Greek instructions and sometimes even with the assistance of detachments of regular troops
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Yalova'ya bağlı Çınarcık köyünde halkın camiye doldurulup kamçı ve sopayla dövüldüğü, paralarının alındığı, bu sırada birkaç kişinin öldüğü...Çınarcık village tortured in mosque...Orhangazi'ye bağlı Tutluca, Paşayaylası, Bayırköy köylerinin yakılıp ahalisinin öldürüldüğü,... Tutluca, Paşayaylası, Bayırköy burned and massacred...Yalova'nın köyler ve diğer yerlerle irtibatını kestikleri, bütün silahları toplayıp, ekmek bıçaklarının dahi uçlarını kırarak, halkı her türlü müdafaa aletinden yoksun bıraktıkları, buna karşılık Hıristiyanları silahlandırıp faciaya zemin hazırladıkları...Weapons of Muslims, even small knives collected, were left defenseless, villages isolated, Christians were armed.
commemoration of the 60 murdered victims
Bu esnada Orhangazi'den yedi, Çakırlı Köyünden yirmi kişi kurşuna dizilerek öldürüldü. Üreyil ve Çakırlı köyleri halkı feci bir şekilde toptan katl ve idam edildi. Malları ise yağmalandı...In the meantime, seven in Orhangazi, and twenty people in Çakırlı were shot dead. In Üreyil and the village of Çakırlı wholesale murder was executed in a catastrophic way. their goods had been looted...Orhangazi civarında (Ureyil ve Çakırlı) İslam karyelerindeki silahlar toplanarak ahalisi feci bir surette kâmilen katl ve idam edilerek malları yağma ve haneleri ihrak olunmuştur...Near Orhangazi the Muslim villages of (Üreğil and Çakırlı) weapons of the local people were collected, and tragic murders,executions, looting took place and their houses were burned.
'The members of the Commission consider that, in the part of the kazas of Yalova and Guemlek occupied by the Greek army, there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Moslem population. This plan is being carried out by Greek and Armenian bands, which appear to operate under Greek instructions and sometimes even with the assistance of detachments of regular troops
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