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Born in Aintab in the Ottoman Empire, Dekmejian saw the deportations, the hunger and murder wrecked upon Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915.

She was among the last Christians to leave Aintab.

Aintab; fragment of relief inscription.

Several Hittite objects sent from Birejik and Aintab to Europe probably came from Jerablus, others from Tell Bashar on the Sajur.

We could see Urfa some little way ahead of us, and wondered whether the missionaries would have heard of our arrival through their friends at Aintab.