The deportation was organized by German General and military adviser to the Ottoman Empire, Liman von Sanders, and included death marches, looting, torture and massacre against the local civilian population.
[Evacuation of Ayvalik](https://web.archive.org/web/20190609180454/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_Ayvalik)
>The deportation was organized by German General and military adviser to the Ottoman Empire, Liman von Sanders, and included death marches, looting, torture and massacre against the local civilian population.
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