Original sentence: " The western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side.Greek Prime Minister Venizelos stated to a British newspaper that:"Greece is not making war against Islam, but against the anachronistic Ottoman Government, and its corrupt, ignominious, and bloody administration, with a view to the expelling it from those territories where the majority of the population consists of Greeks.There was also a religious motivation for recovery of lands lost by the Orthodox Christians to the Muslim Ottoman Turks
Edited sentence: Allegedly, there was also a religious motivation for recovery of lands lost by the Orthodox Christians to the Muslim Ottoman Turks.Before the outbreak of the First World War, over 2 million Greeks lived in Anatolia, where they had resided in their homeland since antiquity.Despite these claims, Greek Prime Minister Venizelos made it quite clear that Greek intervention was at least in name about protecting human rights, not about religion or nationalism.Greeks have lived in Asia Minor since antiquity.In 1915 the Young Turk government enacted genocidal policies against Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Christians.In order to prevent further bloodshed, the Greeks felt the need to intervene against the Turkish government and its "corrupt, ignominious, and bloody administration" in the words of the Greek Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos.On one occassion, Venizelos stated to a British newspaper that:"Greece is not making war against Islam, but against the anachronistic Ottoman Government, and its corrupt, ignominious, and bloody administration, with a view to the expelling it from those territories where the majority of the population consists of Greeks.The western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side.While the Armenian Genocide is the best known of these events, the butchery included many Greeks in Pontus and Western Asia Minor