 Many Greeks from Anatolia fought as revolutionaries and faced the retaliations of the Sultan.The persecutions, massacres, expulsions, and death marches of the Asia Minor Greeks were renewed during the early 20th century by the Young Turk administration of the Ottoman Empire and during the subsequent revolution of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.The Ottoman Greek population was severely affected; its misfortunes became known as the Greek Genocide.