Turkey's third city and its second port after Istanbul, IZMIR - ancient Smyrna - is home to nearly three million people. It was the Ottoman Empire's window to the West and the primary port for the shipping of goods brought from Asia, granted to Greece under an indefinite mandate after World War I. But by September 1922 Greek attempts to extend their area of control had failed, the army beaten back by Atatürk's "free" Turkish forces; the ensuing struggle was bitter ... [More]