Original sentence: According to Kinross, the fire began when Turks, in trying to round up Armenians to confiscate their arms, besieged a group who had taken refuge in a house.According to this account, other Armenians in Smyrna, meanwhile, started another fire elsewhere to divert Turkish attention, and it is argued a strong wind could then have carried both fires from the outskirts of İzmir inward.Armenian originated writer Marjorie Housepian Dobkin's more recent study (selected by the Sunday Times Book of the Year in 1972) cites the estimate of Kinross that up to 100,000 people may have perished.He writes of the re-taking of Smyrna by the Turkish army in September 1922.His account, however, goes beyond the blame and events to a demonization of Muslims, in general, and of Turks, in particular.In an article published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies ("George Horton: The literary diplomat)", Brian Coleman describes his subject matter as follows: "George Horton was a man of letters and United States Consul in Greece and Turkey at a time of social and political change.In his account of Smyrna, he writes not as historian, but as publicist.In several of his novels, written more than two decades before the events of September 1922, he had already identified the Turk as the stock-in-trade villain of Western civilization.Lord Kinross's biography of Atatürk (1964) refers to the deaths as individual and sporadic and places the total at 2,000.Many accounts proposed by some Western scholars that the Turks burned the Armenian and Greek quarters and Nurettin Pasha, the Turkish commander of troops in Ionia, is accused of starting the fire deliberately in an act of retribution.Many of the buildings, being of flimsy construction, were reduced to ashes.There exist conflicting eyewitness accounts and evidence over who started the fire.They then decided to burn them out by setting the building alight
Edited sentence: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin's more recent study (selected by the Sunday Times Book of the Year in 1972) cites the estimate of Kinross that up to 100,000 people may have perished