Word: aintab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford was spinning rapidly over the smooth road from Kilis on Aintab. A few minutes before, we had passed the turn in the road and the stone bridge where Perry and Johnson, the American "Y" secretaries, were killed in 1920, and our chauffeur had pointed out near the road the grave of the Nationalist Turkish leader, Shahin Bey, who had deplored the deed committed by his men, and bad himself been killed almost at the game place, during the French advance...
...drove on past the college to the hospital on the edge of the city, and put up there with Dr. Shepard is the son of the famous "Shepard of Aintab," who died here of typhus in 1915 to take his father's place. he has been in the city all through the fighting. He has counselled and helped besieged Armenians, has tried to make peace between Armenians and Turks, and has received French and Armenian, and now Turkish wounded to the American, hospital, of which he is the head. He is just back from a trip to Beirut, where...
...have visited the city, and seen the destruction there. About 25,000 Armenians were deported from Aintab in 1915, and before the return of the survivors about three thousand houses belonging to Armenians had been destroyed. This devastation has been made good in part and the Armenian quarter rehabilitated during the last two years. But the Turks quarter has been shot to pieces by the French, and is a wreck. Last May, the French were determined to avoid shelling the Turkish quarter so destructively, but they were compelled to it finally by the obstinate resistance of the Nationalists, who surrendered...
...college has been closed, so far as college work is concerned, since 1915, when the Armenians were deported from Aintab. Several of the teachers were sent into exile, where some of them, died of typhus or were murdered. Three were sent to courtmartial on trumped-up charges, but were finally acquitted--a miracle in Turkey. Several are still living, and are in Turkey or abroad, waiting for the college to re-open. About one-third of the students died during the war. Over fifty of the alumni were murdered or died of disease due to war conditions. More than forty...
...Armenians had expected that Aintab would be included in Greater Armenia, but since that hope has vanished, they have accepted the situation and have shown a wonderful spirit in making up with and conciliating the Turks. Last February, they found themselves between the Turks and the French, when the former wanted to attack the latter, and were compelled to fight in self-defence, but after seventy days of fighting they were able to resume relations with the Turks. And now after the year of siege, when they find themselves on the side of the French who finally have conquered, instead...