Editing Gallipoli (section)

====First Balkan War (1912–1913)====
During the [[First Balkan War]], the 1913 [[Battle of Bulair]] and several minor skirmishes took place where the Ottoman army fought in the Greek villages near Gallipoli".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shirinian |first1=George N. |title=Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 |date=2017 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1785334320 |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Astourian |first1=Stephan |title=Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State |date=2020 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78920-450-6 |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062719/https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Carroll N |last2=Papadopoulos |first2=Alexander |title=Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war |date=1919 |publisher=Oxford university press |page=52 |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionsofgr00papa}}</ref> The [[Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars]] mention destruction and massacres in the area by the Ottoman army against Greek and Bulgarian population.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War |date=1914 |publisher=Washington, D.C. |page=132 |url=https://archive.org/details/reportofinternat00inteuoft/page/132/mode/2up}}</ref>

The Ottoman Government, under the pretext that a village was within the firing line, ordered its evacuation within three hours. The residents abandoned everything they possessed, left their village and went to [[Gelibolu|Gallipoli]]. Seven of the Greek villagers who stayed two minutes later than the three-hour limit allowed for the evacuation were shot by the soldiers. After the end of the Balkan War the exiles were allowed to return. But as the Government allowed only the Turks to rebuild their houses and furnish them, the exiled Greeks were compelled to remain in Gallipoli.<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/>