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Gedos was a parole camp on the shore of the Black Sea established late in 1917, where officers who gave their word that they would not escape were well treated.<ref>
Timbob1001 [Tim] [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=219723&p=2322783 Bombardier A N Christison Indian Volunteer Artillery] ''Great War Forum'' 26 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.</ref> Eskichehir and Konia were camps for Indian officers only. <ref> [https://archive.org/stream/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft#page/xx/mode/2up/search/Indian Page xx] ''A Prisoner in Turkey'' by John Still 1920 Archive.org.</ref>
There was a camp at Smyrna, which was used as an repatriation camp c September-October 1918.<ref>JoMH et al. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=149375&p=1447757 Smyrna] ''Great War Forum'' 26 July 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2016.</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>
*Hacikiri, Hadji Keri, Hadschkiri, (the latter may be the German name), Hacýkýrý . A work camp in the Taurus Mountains.
*Ngde, Nigdeh (north of the Taurus Mountains)
==Exhumation from graves and reburial, after the War==
After the War, bodies from those POW graves from across Turkey which could be identified, were exhumed and reburied in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/57303/BAGHDAD%20(NORTH%20GATE)%20WAR%20CEMETERY Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery] cwgc.org</ref> The website of the CWGC may contain a 'concentration' record if this has occurred. For graves which could not be identified, the names of the soldiers generally appear on a Memorial at Baghdad.
==Mesopotamia==
