Prior to the 1915 Armenian Genocide , Haçin had a population of 35,000 , of which 30,000 were Armenians and the rest ere Turks . Most of the Armenians were either massacred or taken to the Deir ez-Zor concentration camps in the Syrian desert . After the Armistice of Mudros in 1918 , Cilicia became a protectorate of France as part of the Triple Entente . Consequently , around 8,000 Armenian Genocide survivors returned to Haçin with the withdrawal of the Ottoman forces . However , the French troops left Cilicia in 1920 , paving the way for the advance of the Turkish forces led by Mustafa Kemal . On April 1 , 1920 , Turkish troops led by Kemal Doğan launched an offensive against the Armenians of Haçin who organized a military resistance , which lasted until October 15 , 1920 , when the Turks occupied the entire city . Most of the remaining 6,000 Armenians were massacred or killed during the military operations . The surviving 365 Armenians of Haçin took refuge in Aleppo and Lebanon
Armenian Genocide
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