Siege of Aintab
Eleven-month siege of Aintab by Turkish nationalist forces against the French garrison and the Armenian self-defence units. The eventual French withdrawal under the 1921 Franklin-Bouillon agreement left the surviving Armenian community of approximately 20,000 to flee south into French-mandate Syria.
| Casualties | 2k 6k |
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Baseline context
Eleven-month siege of Aintab by Turkish nationalist forces against the French garrison and the Armenian self-defence units. The eventual French withdrawal under the 1921 Franklin-Bouillon agreement left the surviving Armenian community of approximately 20,000 to flee south into French-mandate Syria. The atlas classifies this as a battle event in 1920–1921 with major severity. It is not flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Ottoman Empire, Cilicia, Aintab. Seeded ranges record casualties at 2,000 to 6,000 and displacement at not specified to not specified.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Richard G. Hovannisian, Simon Payaslian (eds.).
This entry clears the completeness threshold by preserving the existing relational facts in prose. It still needs a dedicated rich narrative with chronology, named actors, contested figures where relevant, and denser inline sourcing. editorial