An Allied commission that investigated the incidents in the region accepted the Greek claims that Turkish troops massacred more than 12,000 local civilians, while 2,500 were missing was accepted by the commission as fundamentally true, "not withstanding a certain amount of exaggeration in the figures" [REF].
According to British journalist and latter historian, Arnold Toynbee, as a result of the activities of the Greek army and irregulars, up to 300 persons were killed [REF].