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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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==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, or if there is no 'concentration' record, there should be details in the grave registration reports. For graves which could not be identified, the names of the soldiers generally appear on a Memorial at Baghdad.
==Mesopotamia==
*[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MIC19180510.2.2 "Scene From "Inferno." Prisoners In Turkey. British Soldiers Ill-Treated"] ''Mount Ida Chronicle'', [New Zealand] Volume XLV, 10 May 1918, Page 1 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
*[http://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-anzacs-honoured-guests-of-the-sultan-25884 "The forgotten Anzacs: ‘honoured guests’ of the Sultan"] 24 April 2014 theconversation.com. This article also mentions Indian POWs.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0W7pYJsBSw ‪"The British Death March in Mesopotamia"] ''The Great War Week 94''‬. YouTube video. The initial part of this video is about the POWs from Kut.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/10/17/remembrance_nelson.shtml Memoir of Private Fred William Nelson, Lancashire Fusiliers] 1/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (125th Brigade, 42nd Division). Captured at Gallipoli, aged 17, his camps included Bilemedik. 17/10/2008 bbc.co.uk
*[https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:203611/s00855804_1990_14_4_136.pdf "Australian Submariner P.O.W.'s After The Gallipoli Landing"] by M. W. D. White ''Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland'' Volume 14 1990 issue 4: pages 136-144. University of Queensland website.
:[https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/albums/72157625385520788 Photo collection: journey along the track of the WW1 POW's allied in Turkey] Includes photos of Afion Kara Hissar.
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H19395/ Photograph: A railway construction site at Tachdourmas on the Taurus Mountain Railway]. awm.gov.au
*[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.
====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]
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