CASUALTY RECORD // January 1, 1920
Battle of Karboğazı
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 1,000 estimated
France
1,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Karboğazı, fought in the Taurus Mountains during the Turkish War of Independence, represents one of the engagements in the broader nationalist resistance against French forces in Anatolia. Turkish historiography records the action as an ambush against a French battalion of approximately 1,000 troops under Georges Journois, with French casualties recorded at the full strength of that force. The engagement took place in terrain whose very name — Karboğazı, meaning Snow Pass — indicates the difficult mountain conditions that characterized fighting in this region. As part of the wider conflict between Turkish nationalist forces and French-controlled areas in southern Anatolia, actions such as this contributed to the pressure that would eventually lead France to negotiate with the nationalist movement rather than sustain its military position.
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