During the war the Turkish Government deported her father and brothers to the region of Mossul. News came that they have been massacred in the Mesopotamien plain. Vartouhi was deported with her mother, her older sister and many other Armenian women and children to Ras-el-Ain. After a few days stay they were driven further on into the Syrian desert. On the way a Turk from Sivas,named Osman Nuri, took her from her relatives and after four years capture married her by force. The former wives of the Turk were very jealous and illtreated her daily. Lately her husband was transferred to Nissibin. On their way they were very close to the Syrian frontier, Vartouhi took his chance and fled and reached safely a Syrian village near Hassitshe. Our agent was informed, he came immediately and sent her by motor-car to Aleppo.

Left our care: December 31, 1928. Living with her uncle in Aleppo.