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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*Eskichehir
*Karapunar, Karapinar (Taurus Mountains).
*Kastamuni, Kastamouni, Kastamonu, Castamuni , Castamouni, Castamonu, Castamoni , Castamowni
*Kiangri, Kangri, Changri, Çankırı, Cankiri, Cangara. Situated approximately mid-way between Ankara and the internment centre at Kastamuni (Kastamonu)<ref name =Nor>"Captivity in Turkey: from the diaries of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Cecil Lodge Part 2: January-December 1917", refer External links above.</ref>
*Konia
*[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/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.
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