that he could never forget the flight to the mountains and wrote of other childhood memories of the events in his work Uzun Bir Adam. The historian Kamil Su also witnessed the fire as a 13-year-old living in the Alaybey neighborhood. On the morning of 6 September he fled with his family to the mountains. When he returned to his neighborhood he found corpses in the streets and most buildings razed to their foundations, only the walls of the historic Aydın mosque still standing; the corpse of an unknown man lay in the street in front of where Su's house had stood. He later wrote Manisa ve Yöresinde İşgal Acıları, a book about the Greek occupation and the fire. Gallery See also Fire of Smyrna (occurred a short time after Manisa on 13 September 1922) Outline and timeline of the Greek genocide Notes References Bibliography Fires in Turkey 1922 fires in Europe 1922 in the Ottoman Empire 1922 disasters in the Ottoman Empire Mass murder in 1922 Urban fires in Asia Persecution of Turkish people