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There Officers were camps in Kastamonunot required to work, Eskisehir, Capadoccia, Cankiri, Afion, Sivas, Yozgat, Hacikiri, Belemedikbut other soldiers were.<ref>Dogan Sahin [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1226&p=847997 Kut POW] ''Great War Forum'' 28 January 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2015The horrible truth appears to have been that only those men fit enough to work survived.</ref> Some of these Those who were unfit to work campsdied due many reasons, such as but Hacikiri and Belemedik in including the Taurus Mountainspolicy that only working prisoners were provided with food.
BagtscheMost camps were associated with the construction, or running, of the Baghdad Railway, including related roadworks. There were camps in Kastamonu, Eskisehir, Capadoccia, Cankiri, Afion, Sivas, Yozgat, Hacikiri, Belemedik.<ref>Dogan Sahin [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1226&p=847997 Kut POW] ''Great War Forum'' 28 January 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2015.</ref> A listing <ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/8368013255/in/album-72157626048387648/ Image: “Internment Camps in Turkey”], from an unknown source, perhaps French, from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/albums/72157626048387648/with/8374464884/ Photograph Collection: Researche about WW1-Eastern Front]</ref> provides the following work camps in the Amanus (now Nur) and Taurus Mountains:<br>Amanus Mountains: Baghtche with associated camps at Amanus, Airan and , Entelli were , Tasch Durmas, Yarbaschi.<br>Taurus Mountains: Bozanti wirh associated camps at Bilemedik, Gelebek, Hadji-Kiri, Kouchdjoula.<br>Taurus Mountains, South Sector : Boudjak with associated camps at Adana, Dorak, Tarsus (H). (Another source suggests Dorak was the major camp) These railway work camps, were under control of the German construction company, in the Amanus Mountains, (now Nur Mountains). The section between Bagtsche and Airan –Entilli was at kilometres “485,800-502,800”<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/geologiekleinasi00frec#page/50/mode/2up/search/Bagtsche Page 50] ''Geologie Kleinasiens im Bereich der Bagdadbahn'' by Fritz Frech 1916 Archive.org</ref>. William Fratel of the Indian Subordinate Medical Department, who had been captured at Kut, was court-martialled in England in 1919 for his actions at Bagtsche.<ref>IPT [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=233239&hl= Kut Cruelty - William Fratel] ''Great War Forum'' 5 November 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.</ref>
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Of approximately 2,962 white British officers and other ranks captured at Kut, 1,782 would go on to die in Ottoman captivity. Indian prisoners along with their white comrades, experienced a horrific death march from Kut-al-Amara to the northern railhead at Ras-el-Ain (in modern day Syria).<ref> "Prisoners of War" by Heather Jones. encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. 'Section 6: Mistreatment' contains information about prisoners in Turkey. See [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)#External links|External links, above]].</ref>
In 1917 Angora (Ankara) became the centre of the working groups engaged in laying the narrow-gauge line towards Yozgad. <ref> [https://archive.org/stream/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft#page/xiv/mode/2up/search/Angora Page xv] ''A Prisoner in Turkey'' by John Still 1920 Archive.org.</ref>
Transfers between different camps were common.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RA-JBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 page 150] “Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity” by Kate Ariotti, Other Fronts, Other Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial. 2014 Google Books</ref>
Treatment of prisoners appears to have varied considerably, depending on who was in charge of the camps.
A POW Museum has now been established at '''Afionkarahissar''' in the main (namazgah-chapel) section of the Madrasa<ref> Sahin, Dogan [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=227884&p=2265886 Henry James Harding POW held by the Turkish Army] ''Great War Forum'' 23 May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015</ref>
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/index.html'' Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914-1923''] by Kenneth Steuer, written as a dissertation in 2008. Website of Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.
**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/AppendixA/turkey/index.html Turkish Prison Camps]. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Turkey.
::[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/steuer/archive/AppendixA/Turkish%20Prison%20Camps/index.html "Appendix A: Prison Camps: Turkey"]. This alphabetical list, which contains information about location, appears to be from an earlier/different version of the above book, and does not appear to be included in the current version. If you are looking for a particular location which you cannot find, it is suggested you read through '''all''' the entries, because some entries mention smaller camps in the vicinity.
:[http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_pubs "First World War Central Power Prison Camps"] by Kenneth Steuer 1-1-2013 ''History Faculty Publications'', Western Michigan University . Includes Turkish Prison Camps
*[http://www.armeniangenocide.com.au/files/diamadis%20precious%20GPII.pdf "Precious and Honoured Guests of the Ottoman Government"] by Panayiotis Diamadis, pages 162-179 ''Genocide Perspectives II, '' 2002. The author is a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RA-JBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA146 “Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity”] by Kate Ariotti, pages 146-166 ''Other Fronts, Other Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial''. 2014 Google Books
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/albums/72157626048387648/with/8374464884/ Photograph Collection: Researche about WW1-Eastern Front]. Includes an image titled [https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/8368013255/in/album-72157626048387648/ “Internment Camps in Turkey”], from an unknown source, perhaps French. Also includes some maps in respect of Kut, and includes some unattributed images of pages from ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division'' by Major EWC Sandes, refer online books below.
*[http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/Network/CilicianGates The Cilician gates] trainsofturkey.com. The Baghdad Railway and construction of the tunnels through the Taurus Mountains. The location of the work camps at Belemedik and Hacikiri.
**[http://holzmann.fh-potsdam.de/?page_id=681 German photos of the Baghdad Railway], including a category titled "Bagdadbahn, Taurusgebirge, Belemedik, Adana". Bildarchiv der Philipp Holzmann AG.
*[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]
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Miscellaneous No. 24 (1918): Report on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey'']. Presented to Parliament November 1918. HMSO 1918 IOR/L/MIL/7/18737 British Library
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major EWC Sandes R E 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromkastamunito00woolgoog ''From Kastamuni to Kedos: Being a Record of Experiences of Prisoners of War in Turkey, 1916-1918''] by C L Woolley, Capt. RFA 1921. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster. HMS Tara was formerly the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) ship Hibernia, with more details in [http://blog.nrm.org.uk/prisoners-of-the-red-desert/ Prisoners of the Red Desert: Wartime Adventures of LNWR railwaymen] National Railway Museum.
