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==Repatriation, before the end of the war, and after==
*There were two exchanges of PoWs with the Turkish in Mesopotamia in 1916.<ref>charlie962. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/269413-mespot-pow-exchanges-in-1916/ Mespot- PoW exchanges in 1916] ''Great War Forum'' 30 January 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.</ref>
*There was a release of seriously wounded men in Feb 1918 who passed via Constantinople to Switzerland then to England c Feb 1918. <ref>charlie962. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/276732-ssgt-jem-brunskill-ramc-was-he-a-turkish-pow/?do=findComment&comment=2820699 S/Sgt J.E.M Brunskill RAMC - was he a Turkish POW ?] ''Great War Forum'' 14 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.</ref>
*There was a prisoner exchange program, based on medical criteria, almost at the end of the war. Men were selected from all over Turkey and were sent to Smyrna. John Still was one of those evacuated by ship on 1 November 1918. See his account ''A Prisoner in Turkey'' in Historical books online, below.
*For the situation after the Armistice with Turkey on 30 October, 1918, see the account "How British Prisoners Left Turkey" by Lieutenant-Colonel E H Keeling, in Historical books online, below.
The most common evacuation route appears to have been by ship, from a Turkish port to Alexandria in Egypt, by another ship to Italy, (e.g. Brindisi or Tarranto), and then by train to Britain. (More details of the route.<ref>[http://www.forcespostalhistorysociety.org.uk/journal_archive/journals-current---291/journal-300o.pdf "Overland Route to the East 1917-1919"] by Andrew Brooks ''Forces Postal History Society Journal'' No 300 Summer 2014, page 179.</ref>)
Some returned POWs from Turkey are mentioned in the ''Weekly Casualty List''s, see [[British Army#WW1 Casualty Lists|British Army - WW1 Casualty Lists]]. As an example ''Weekly Casualty List'' No. 82, 25th February 1919, page 7 contains some names. <ref>charlie962. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/276732-ssgt-jem-brunskill-ramc-was-he-a-turkish-pow/?do=findComment&comment=2820973 S/Sgt J.E.M Brunskill RAMC - was he a Turkish POW ?] ''Great War Forum'' 14 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019. [https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/194175362 ''Weekly Casualty List'' No. 82, 25th February 1919, page 7] National Library of Scotland.</ref>
==Exhumation from graves and reburial, after the War==
