Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Eskişehir

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict = Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Eskişehir


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partof = Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
date = June 27 - July 10, 1921
place = Afyonkarahisar - Kutahya - Eskisehir
result = Greek victory
combatant1 = Turkish Revolutionaries
combatant2 = Kingdom of Greece
commander1 = Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Ismet Inonu
commander2 = Anastasios Papoulas
strength1 = - 100,000
strength2 = - 100,000
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casualties2 =

The Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Eskişehir of 1921, also known in some Greek historiography as battle of Dorylaion and some Turkish sources as the 3rd battle of Inonu, was part of the Greek Asia Minor Campaign and the Turkish War of Independence of 1919-1922.See also: Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

The battle took place in a number of phases between 27 June and 10 July 1921, when the Greek army defeated the Turkish troops commanded by Ismet Inönü in defence of the line of Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir.

The Greek Army managed to break through Turkish resistance occupying the aforementioned strategically important centres. The Turks despite their defeat managed to avoid encirclement and made a strategic retreat on the east of Sakarya river. The Greeks with rejuvenated their faltering morale pursued to engage the Turks to their last line of defence close to Ankara.

This was the largest confrontation between the two sides in terms of numbers of armed forces during the whole war,as the Greeks threw in the battle 9 of their divisions (about 100,000 men) against an unknown, but similar number of Turks. Strategically though, the battle was of little importance as the Greeks failed to grasp the opportunity and chase the retreating Turkish troops. This proved later to be a major strategic error, when the two sides had to meet each other again during the much more fierce Battle of Sakarya which turned the tide in favour of the Turks.