Battle of Marash

Part of the Franco-Turkish War

Date

21 January – 13 February 1920

Location

Marash, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire

Result

Effective stalemate, French moral defeat

Tactically inconclusive
French troops abandon Marash
Killing of Armenian populace

Belligerents

Turkish National Movement

Kuva-yi Milliye

France

( ) French Armenian Legion

Commanders and leaders

Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Arslan Toğuz

Ali Kılıç

General Quérette
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Normand
Major Corneloup

Captain Pierre-Jean Daniel André

Strength

Varies throughout battle as numbers of supporters grow

French claim :
30,000 armed guerrilla fighters

Turkish claim :
2,500 Kuva-yi Milliye
Local support

Max. ~2,000 engaged in battle at one particular moment (as seen in order of battle)

Turkish claim:
3,000 French
2,000 Armenians (non-French Armenians were mostly unarmed civilians)
4 armored cars

Western estimates:
4,000+ total French-Senegalese troops

Casualties and losses

4,500 killed
500+ wounded
(Including civilians)

6,500 killed
280 wounded
170 missing