The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel

Most who left Hatay in 1939 emigrated to Lebanon where they resettled in the town of Anjar. Vakıflı is the only remaining ethnic Armenian village in Turkey, with a population of only 140 Turkish-Armenians. Afterwards Armenians from six of the villages emigrated from Hatay Province, while some of the residents of Vakıflı village chose to stay. On 29 June 1939, following an agreement between France and Turkey, the province was given to Turkey. The mountain was in Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, until after World War I, when the French took possession and put it in Sanjak of Alexandretta, Mandate of Syria. In 1932, a monument was erected at the top of the mountain to commemorate the event.

Starting in 1918, when the Sanjak of Alexandretta came under French control, the population of the six Armenian villages returned to their homes.

The other French ships were the seaplane carrier Foudre, the protected cruiser D'Estrées, and the armored cruisers Amiral Charner and Dupleix. Five French ships, beginning with the protected cruiser Guichen, under the command of Captain Jean-Joseph Brisson, evacuated 3,004 women and children and over 1,000 men from Musa Dagh to safety in Port Said. Allied warships, most notably the French 3rd Squadron in the Mediterranean under command of Vice Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet, sighted the survivors just as ammunition and food provisions were running out. One of the leaders of the revolt was Movses Der Kalousdian, whose Armenian first name was the same as that of the mountain. As Ottoman Turkish forces converged upon the town, the populace, aware of the impending danger, refused deportation and fell back upon Musa mountain, thwarting assaults for fifty-three days, from July to September 1915. The deportation orders of the Armenian population of modern-day Turkey, issued by the Ottoman government, in July 1915 reached the six Armenian villages of the Musa Dagh region: Kabusia (Kaboussieh), Yoghunoluk, Bitias, Vakef, Kheter Bey (Khodr Bey) and Haji Habibli. French newspaper « Le Miroir », 24 October 1915

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel