Ptolemaios Sarigiannis [SEP] conflict
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis (, 1882–1958) was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Major General, holding senior staff positions during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 and serving as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1925–1926.
Life.
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis was born in Piraeus in 1882. He entered the Hellenic Army Academy in 1900 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers on 9 July 1903. He later completed his studies as a staff officer in the "École Supérieure de Guerre".
in Asia minor.
Background.
After the First Battle of İnönü, where Miralay (Colonel) İsmet Bey fought against a Greek detachment out of occupied Bursa, the Greeks prepared for another attack aiming the towns of Eskisehir and Afyonkarahisar with their inter-connecting rail-lines. Ptolemaios Sarigiannis, staff officer in the Army of Asia Minor, made the offensive plan.
Meanwhile, the London Conference was held between February 21 and March 11, 1921. The Turkish side was not able to extract the concessions it demanded