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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/de-berlin-baghdad-3.htm Berlin-Baghdad Railway - The Great War] globalsecurity.org
*[https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/22585/ATWOOD-MASTERSREPORT-2013.pdf ''The Baghdad Railway''] by Valerie H. Atwood. Report presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, May, 2013.
*[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5362C4RD9uk/Ug1O52l5NgI/AAAAAAAAPA4/F38OXgUwk8A/s1600/1915+place+names-14.jpg Map: place names in East and South East of Ottoman Domain with Latin alphabet, before 1915]. From website Mavi Boncuk, ([http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p4.html page 4], 08/15/13 scroll down.
 
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/231547886/Rapport-de-MM-Alfred-Boissier-et-Dr-Adolphe-Vischer-sur-leur-inspection-des-camps-de-prisonniers-en-Turquie ''Rapport de MM. Alfred Boissier et Dr Adolphe Vischer sur leur inspection des camps de prisonniers en Turquie''] International Committee of the Red Cross report on inspection of prisoners camps in Turkey, October 1916 to January 1917. French language. Scribd.com. Also available through [http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/Camps/Afioun-Kara-Hissar/107/fr/ grandeguerre.icrc.org]
====Baghdad Railway====
Baghdad Railway. Note: The German and American spelling is Bagdad.
*[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qSo6eXTvGUg/UtQudh-jkVI/AAAAAAAAQcU/nGIdtlkZ4k4/s1600/bagrail.jpg Map: Turkish Railways in 1914] from the website Mavi Bonkuk ([http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p16.html page 16], 01/13/14, scroll down).
*[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/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/details/turkeygreatpower00earlrich ''Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway : a study in Imperialism''] by Edward Mead Earle 1924 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/turkeygreatpower00earlrich#page/n5/mode/2up Map 1918]
*[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.
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