Original sentence: Menemen was invaded by the Greek Army on 17-18 May 1919 and recaptured, together with İzmir, three years later on 9 September 1922 by the Turkish Armies.One of the darkest episodes of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) occurred on 16-17 June 1919 when, in the evening of the Ottoman prefect of Menemen -Kemal Bey- and the six gendarmes accompnying him were assassinated by Greek soldiers.These assassinations became the opening act of the atrocities carried out on the civilian population of Menemen the next day by a Cretan Brigade aided by a number of accomplices from among the local Greek minority.Today, Menemen does not have a Christian community; on the other hand, most of the once Turkish-populated towns in Greece also lost their Muslim Turkish communities
Edited sentence: Menemen was invaded by the Greek Army on 17-18 May 1919 and liberated, together with İzmir, three years later on 9 September 1922 by the Turkish Armies.One of the darkest episodes of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) occurred on 16-17 June 1919 when, in the evening of the Ottoman prefect of Menemen -Kemal Bey- and the six gendarmes accompnying him were assassinated by the Greek soldiers.The Greek occupation in town was a very difficult era for its Turkish population.These assassinations became the opening act of an obviously planified butchery carried out on the civilian population of Menemen the next day by a Cretan Brigade aided by a number of accomplices from among the local Greek minority.Today, Menemen does not have a Christian community; on the other hand, most of the once Turkish and Jewish populated towns in Greece also lost their Muslim Turkish and Jewish communities