Turkey - Black Sea Coast - Evacuation of the French population Sile - 17th June 1920, during the Franco-Turkish War. Known as the Cilicia Campaign ('La campagne de Cilicie' in France and as 'The Southern Front' or 'Guney Cephesi' in Turkish) - a series of conflicts fought between France and the Turkish provisional government from May 1920 to October 1921 in the aftermath of World War I.