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The Battle of Marash (Turkish: Maraş Muharebesi) was a battle that took place in the early winter of 1920 between the French forces occupying the city of Maraş in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish National Forces linked to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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  • The Battle of Marash (Turkish: Maraş Muharebesi) was a battle that took place in the early winter of 1920 between the French forces occupying the city of Maraş in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish National Forces linked to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
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  • Battle of Marash
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  • 500+ wounded
  • 4,500 killed
combatant
  • France
  • *()French Armenian Legion)
  • *(French West Africa)
  • *(Kuva-yi Milliye)
  • Turkish National Movement
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result
  • * French troops abandon Marash
  • * Killing of Armenians accused of collaboration
  • * Strategic Turkish victory
  • * Tactically inconclusive
  • Effective stalemate, French moral defeat
strength
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  • 2,500Kuva-yi Milliye
  • 3,000 French
  • 30,000 armedguerrillafighters
  • 4,000+ total French-Senegalese troops
  • 4armored cars
  • French claim (likely at the end):
  • Local support
  • Turkish claim (likely at the start):
  • Turkish claim:
  • Westernestimates:
  • Max. ~2,000 engaged in battle at one particular moment (as seen in order of battle)
  • Varies throughout battle as numbers of supporters grow
  • 2,000 Armenians (non-French Armenians were mostly unarmed civilians)
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