background greco turkish war as an extension of the balkan wars i have tried to clean up the mess made by a number of edits which while making some worthwhile points also included assertions that were only marginally relevant or that provided excessive detail i removed some assertions and moved some to other articles leaving behind a summary one thing that we need to remember is that the focus of this article is the war itself and we need to ensure that the background article does not grow to the point where it dominates the article and overwhelms the discussion of the war the reader should not have to slog through a long discussion of turn of the century greek and balkan history before getting to the discussion of the war itself i know that i started this by introducing the discussion of the megali idea venizelos and constantine i but i meant for the treatment to only cover a few paragraphs that is why i have been shortening the background section back to more manageable proportions one thing that i am still wrestling with is the idea that this war was an extension of the balkan wars i can believe that this is true but i need a deeper understanding before i can figure out how to present the idea in a way that the reader can understand i have removed the image of people migrating as it seems not directly relevant to the argument