ABSTRACT
After the massacre of the French soldiers on April 10, 1920, peoples were again left in the hands of the Turks. For a time, conditions were tolerable. At this point the Turks were fearful of retaliation for the murder of the French battalion and were therefore lenient towards Christians. The cooperation of the officials proved transitory. The massacre of the French in Urfa turned out to be only one incident in what is now recognized as the Kemalist Revolution. Of particular concern to us during this period was the plight of the children who had been brought back to Urfa after having spent four or five years since the deportations among Moslem villagers, usually Kurds or Arabs, occasionally Turks. All these widows with their children were trying to make a start again in the Armenian quarter of Urfa. Some found their homes liveable, though damaged. Others found their homes unliveable and managed to find other shelter.
