Siege of Aintab

Date	1 April 1920 - 8 February 1921
Location	Aintab, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Result	French victory

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

General Quérette

Général Goubeau

Colonel Flye Sainte-Marie

Colonel Abadie

Colonel Andréa

Strength

Total force:
2.920 militia fighters,
6 machine guns,
3 mountain guns

Total force:
12,000 French soldiers,
1,500 Armenian soldiers,
4 tanks, 11 artillery batteries, 1,400 military animals, 6 aircraft, 1 mobile hospital

Casualties and losses

6,317 killed (mostly civilians)
over 2000 prisoners
1400 guns
10 machine guns

on September 10th: 1200 French soldiers, including 4 high rank officers, killed according to French Army sources

The Siege of Aintab (French: Les Quatres Sièges d'Aïntab) or Siege of Antep (Turkish: Antep Kuşatması) was a military engagement between the Turkish National Forces and the French Army of the Levant occupying the city of Aintab (present-day Gaziantep) during the Turkish War of Independence (specifically its southern front, known as the Franco-Turkish War).

Fighting began in April 1920, when French forces opened fire on city. Fighting continued until February 1921.

According to Ümit Kurt, born in modern-day Gaziantep and an academic at Harvard’s Center for Middle East Studies,