Original sentence: Greeks managed to seek refuge on Greek ships at the harbor of İzmir and other coastal towns because the Allied (primarily British) ships (with the exception of some Japanese and Italian ships) refused the Greek refugees--even to the point of keeping those who had swum out to their ships away--as they had orders not to get involved in the event.This massacre include the lynching and brutal murder of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna whose ears, nose, and hands were cut off and his eyes gouged out with knives
Edited sentence: " Greeks managed to seek refuge on Greek ships at the harbor of İzmir and other coastal towns because the Allied (primarily British) ships (with the exception of some Japanese and Italian ships) refused the Greek refugees--even to the point of keeping those who had swum out to their ships away--as they had orders not to get involved in the event.An official American observer, contradicting lurid reports in the American press, afterwards estimated the total deaths, from various causes, at about two thousand.Kinross said for the events of Smyrna: "As events turned out it was not massacre but fire that made a tragedy of the Turkish reoccupation of Smyrna... The excesses committed by the Turkish soldiers against local Greeks were brutal indeed, but of a sporadic and individual kind.This massacre include the lynching and brutal murder of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna (done in revenge for his actions against Turkish officials and population) whose ears, nose, and hands were cut off and his eyes gouged out with knives