Battle of Tellidede was a clash around Aydın, Turkey during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).The Allies had found official orders of the Turks directing wholesale massacres of the Christian civilians including the rapes of the women.  Consequently , the Greeks were sent there with a Mandate to prevent the further massacres of Christians by the Turks.  Th Greek army planning to throw back the Turkish irregular forces around Aydın, started an offensive at the Tellidede ridges.