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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*[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. There are Contents page at the back of the book, pages 61-62. 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. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/188396 Alternative version: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt]
*[https://archive.org/details/insideconstantin00einsrich '' Inside Constantinople: a diplomatist's diary during the Dardanelles expedition, April-September, 1915''] by Lewis Einstein, late Special Agent at the American Embassy, Constaninople. 1917 Archive.org
**Regarding the lack, or taking, of prisoners of war by the Turks: [https://archive.org/details/insideconstantin00einsrich/page/138/mode/2up Page 139] June 24, 1915 practically no prisoners have been taken. Also page 145 the wounded are murdered in the hope of pillage and see page 193. [https://archive.org/details/insideconstantin00einsrich/page/228/mode/2up Page 229] Aug. 11, 1915 - The Turks are beginning to take more prisoners at the Dardanelles.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206358/page/n293 Pages 200-205] ''History of the 1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley’s)'' by Lieut Colonel F H James 1938. Archive.org. The experience of part of the regiment (346 in total, officers, ORs and followers) after the fall of Kut.
*For an Indian Army regimental history, where part of the regiment was taken prisoner at Kut, see [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]], on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
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