Aram Karamanoukian was born on May 1910 in Aintab ( today Gaziantep ) , Ottoman Empire to his father Hagop ( Effendi ) Karamanoukian , a lawyer by profession , and his mother Mariam Leylekian . During the Armenian Genocide , the Armenians of Aintab were deported and Karamanoukian , along with his family , were driven into the Syrian desert where they arrived in Hama and ultimately settled in Aleppo , Ottoman Syria . He received his early education at Atenagan and the Haigazian Lyceum in Aleppo , graduating from there in 1923 . Setting aside his education for a few years , he briefly became a dentist in 1924 . Thereafter , he resumed his education at the Marist Brothers College in Aleppo
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Aram Karamanoukian