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CLAIM 1
\nFrom the book “Katran KazanInda Sterilize” (“Sterilized in Tar
\nCauldron”) by Imge Publications, written by Ahmet Duru who revealed
\nthe diary of the sub-lieutenant Ahmet Altinay from Karaman…<\/p>\n
“In WWI, 150 thousand of our soldiers were captured by the British.
\nAnd some of these soldiers were imprisoned in Seydibesir Useray-i
\nHarbiye Camp \u00a0near the city of Alexandria in Egypt. The full name of
\nthe camp was “Seydibesir Kuveysna Osmanli Useray-i Harbiye (4) Kampi”.
\nIn this camp, the Ottoman soldiers of 16th Division’s 48th Regiment
\nwho were captured at the Palestine fronts in 1918 were interned. For
\ntwo years until June 12th, 1920, they were subjected to any kind of
\ntorture, oppression, heavy insults and humiliation.<\/p>\n
The reason for this inhumane treatment was the Armenians. The war was
\nover. Nevertheless, to release the soldiers besides the ones who died
\nbecause of heavy conditions in the camp was not to the benefit of the
\nBritish. Because the British were brainwashed by Armenians, being told
\nthat in a potential new war they could come up against these soldiers
\nagain. The solution was massacre…
\nOur soldiers, forced by bayonets, were put in disinfection pools with
\nthe excuse of wiping out germs. But the chemical, krizol, was added a
\nlot more than normal in the water. Even just when they put their feet,
\nour soldiers got scalded. However, the British troops didn’t let them
\nget out of the pool by threatening with rifles.<\/p>\n
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Our soldiers didn’t want to put their heads under the water that
\nreached waist level. But then the British started shooting in the air.
\nOur soldiers knelt and put their heads under water not to die.
\nBut the ones who got their heads out of the water couldn’t see any
\nmore. Because the eyes were burned…The resistance of our soldiers who
\nsaw what happened to the ones that got out was no use and our 15
\nthousand men got blinded.<\/p>\n
This savagery was discussed in May 25th, 1921, in the Turkish Great
\nNational Assembly. The congressmen Mr. Faik and Mr. Seref proposed
\nthat 15 thousand sons of this country were blinded in Egypt by being
\nput in the “krizol” pool; and wanted the Assembly to make an attempt
\nfor punishment of the British physicians, commanders and soldiers who
\nwere guilty of this act.<\/p>\n
Of course the newly founded government had a thousand other problems.
\nDemanding an explanation for this act was easily forgotten.<\/p>\n
The British commanders of the camp, because of the wrong, mendacious
\ntranslations and provocations of Armenian translators who knew
\nTurkish, had become fierce Turk enemies.<\/p>\n
COUNTER CLAIM
\nThe British run PoW camps in Egypt were regularly inspected by the
\ndiplomatic representatives of neutral countries and by the
\nInternational Committee of the Red Cross
\nSidi Bishr Camp (Seydibesir Useray-i Harbiye Camp) was visited on 6th
\nJanuary 1917 and the report on that visit can be read in chapter 7,
\nhere
\nBryn<\/p>\n
CLAIM 2
\nThe other claim made by Y\u00fccel Yan\u0131kda\u011f in his unpublished PhD thesis
\nIll-fated Sons of the Nation: Ottoman Prisoners of War in Russia and
\nEgypt, 1914-1922 makes the claim that the British authorities
\ndeliberately infected Turkish POWs with Pellagra. This particular
\nstory is also doing the rounds of the “British plot to kill Turks
\ninspired by Armenian” circuit and has equal credibility.<\/p>\n
COUNTER CLAIM
\nThe nub of the Pellagra claim is that the British deliberately singled
\nout the Turks for ill treatment by inadequate diet leading to the
\nex-POWs having the highest death rate from Pellagra amongst all the
\nother prisoners. On the basis of the death rate, it was concluded that
\nPellagra was a deliberate policy. That Turkish POWs died in great
\nnumbers from Pellagra is well documented in British sources. However,
\nthis churlish complaint does not mention that Pellagra takes 5-6 years
\nto manifest itself into a fatal condition. No Turkish POW spent that
\nlong in their incarceration leading to the conclusion that these men
\nsuffered from Pellagra prior to becoming a POW. It wasn’t until the
\nmid 1920’s that it was discovered that Pellagra was due to dietary
\nproblems.<\/p>\n
CLAIM 3
\nCholera \u00a0at Berramke Barracks in Damascus \u00a0was deliberate to kill Turks.<\/p>\n
COUNTER CLAIM
\nA search of the Australian archives – every single available file
\nrelating to POWs is very much available and they provide information
\nwith the good and the bad. Nothing is covered up. The worst case
\nregarded the 12,000 Ottoman soldiers who surrendered at the Berramke
\nBarracks in Damascus after its fall on 1 October 1918. These men were
\ndeserted by their own support teams and left to fend for themselves
\nwithout any resources with neither food nor medicines. After a few
\ndays being held as POWs, cholera broke out amongst this group. Over a
\ntwo week period many hundreds of men died through cholera, the worst
\nday recording over 150 deaths. By dint of hard work, the POWs were put
\nto work to provide a satisfactory sanitation and drinking water
\nsystem. Some men had to be coerced into working towards the common
\ngood. The result – cholera was brought under control. The deaths from
\ncholera did not only effect the Turks but also the Australian, Indian,
\nFrench and British soldiers in the area with many of these troops also
\ndying.<\/p>\n
So the cholera outbreak at Damascus was not a sinister British plot to
\nkill Turks, it was a problem brought on by the neglect of the Turkish
\ncommand for the health of their soldiers and citizens in Damascus. The
\nordinary soldier in both the Allied forces and the Turkish army paid a
\nhigh price for this neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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