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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*[http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/mhpir/research/research_by_staff/gallipoli_centenary_research_project/project_outcomes/translated_turkish_works_on_gallipoli/#crescent Sample of Red Crescent Documents] relating to POWs from “Translated Turkish Works on Gallipoli”, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
*[https://archive.org/details/anamericanphysic00usshuoft ''An American Physician in Turkey : a narrative of adventures in peace and in war''] by Clarence D Ussher and Grace H Knapp 1917 Archive.org. The author was a medical missionary. The chapters from [https://archive.org/stream/anamericanphysic00usshuoft#page/212/mode/2up page 213] cover the war period.
*====Baghdad Railway====Baghdad Railway. Note: The German and American spelling is Bagdad.**[http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1954408 Railway Map of Turkey: Summer 1914] Digital page 205, ''Der Kampf um die Dardanellen 1915'', part of the series ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.**[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/images/berlin-baghdad-bahn-map-1916.jpg C 1916 Map showing Route of the Baghdad Railway] showing yet to be constructed tunnels. globalsecurity.org. Full title: Sketch Map to Illustrate The Operations In Mesopotamia and the Route of the Baghdad Railway. Elsewhere it is stated that this map is not a correct representation of the state of the Baghdad railway during WW1, as it shows the link from Konya ending at Bulgurlu; in fact, that portion of the line was open as far as Karapunar<ref>[http://www.corkpsc.org/db.php?mid=917 Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database)] corkpsc.org</ref>*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983/2015.82983.Through-Asiatic-Turkey-Vol-2#page/n287/mode/2up "The Railway Question"] Chapter XIV, page 275 ''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus, Volume II'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878 Archive.org*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/213119 ''Report by Major Law on Railways in Asiatic Turkey : with five maps ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty ; May 1896''] Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt.**[https://archive.org/details/railwaysinwester00pico ''Railways in Western Asia''] by Lieutenant-Colonel H Picot Indian Army (Retired). Published by the Central Asian Society, London 1904 Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/shortcuttoindiar00frasrich ''The Short Cut to India, the record of a journey along the route of the Baghdad Railway''] by David Fraser 1909 Archive.org. Includes a description of the areas where the railway had not then been constructed such as the Taurus and Amanus Mountains.**[https://archive.org/stream/acrossasiaminoro00chiluoft#page/372/mode/2up Baghche [1911-12<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 373 ''Across Asia Minor on Foot'' by W J Childs 1917. Archive.org.This journey took place 1911-1912.<ref>[http://search.proquest.com/openview/ef094cb144d907af53b5297bf8eae15c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818810 "On the Baghdad Road: On the Trail of W. J. Childs"] by John Fisher ''Archives'' Volume 24, No 101 (Oct 1, 1999): 53. First page only. Probably ''Journal of the British Records Association''. Proquest.</ref>**[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1779453?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ''The Baghdad Railway''] by Captain S. F. Newcombe, R E and Lieut, J. P. S. Greig R E ''The Geographical Journal'' Volume 44, No. 6 (Dec., 1914), pp. 577-580. jstor.org . Describes a journey in May 1914. Includes photographs. Available to read online for free, but first you must register with JSTOR, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]. **[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dtwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA647 "Germany’s Railway Problems in Asiatic Turkey"] by R J Bjurstedt page 647 ''Popular Mechanics'' May 1916. Google Books. Includes a map of the route of the Baghdad Railway.**[https://archive.org/details/warbagdadrailway02jast ''The War and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict''] by Morris Jastrow 3rd edition 1918 (first published 1917) with a [https://archive.org/stream/warbagdadrailway02jast#page/n194/mode/1up Map] showing the route of the railway.**[https://archive.org/stream/cradleofwar00wood#page/n325/mode/2up "Chapter XI The Bagdad Railway and the War"] page 271 ''The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism'' by Henry Charles Woods 1918 Archive.org::[http://www.jstor.org/stable/25121975 "The Bagdad Railway"] by H. Charles Woods ''The North American Review'' Vol. 208, No. 753 (Aug., 1918), pp. 219-228 jstor.org:*[https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/140/mode/2up Description of a journey from Bozanti to Aleppo by (existing) rail, horse and road, via Alexandretta c 1915?] page 140 ''Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919'' by Djemal Pasha, formerly…Imperial Ottoman Naval Minister, Commander of the Fourth Army in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. 1922 Archive.org. With [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n146/mode/1up Map probably of sections (or proposed sections) of the Baghdad Railway Adana to Aleppo] and showing the strategic port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta), facing page 140, and [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n147/mode/1up Lower part of the this map, south west from Aleppo to Homs and the coast]:*[https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069713--1-.pdf "Chapter XXII – By Cattle-Truck Through the Taurus"], pages 309-324 [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069872/ ''Gallipoli Mission''] by Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Bean (1st edition, 1948). Australian War Memorial website. This account relates to travel by Bean, of the Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March, 1919.:*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n108/mode/1up Page 89] ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org indicates that after the War, Indian troops were guarding the railway line in the Taurus Mountains, and that there were Indian Field Post Offices in the vicinity.
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