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Educating the Peasants: The Ottoman Army and Enlisted Men in Uniform
Many Ottoman officers believed that military service in and of itself was an educational experience. Yanikdag discusses whether service in the Ottoman army was at the least a qualitatively new experience for the Ottoman peasant soldiers, bringing them--even if against their will--into contact with a world beyond their villages.
Journal Article
From Cowardice to Illness: Diagnosing Malingering in the Ottoman Great War
The Ottoman military was mobilizing but not yet at work in September 1914 when one of the battalion doctors attached to the Tenth Army Corps in north-eastern Anatolia was informed that a soldier was having seizures. Running immediately to the soldier, Dr. Dervis examined him and noted: \"it was immediately obvious that he was malingering.\" Dr. Dervis was not the only Ottoman military doctor to encounter malingering among the troops. Adapted from the source document.
Journal Article
‘Ill -fated’ sons of the nation: Ottoman prisoners of war in Russia and Egypt, 1914–1922
This dissertation investigates the everyday lives of the Ottoman prisoners of war in World War I and the impact of captivity on them in a comparative perspective. Captivity narratives and previously untapped prison camp newspapers produced by the prisoners in various camps form an important part of the sources for this dissertation. Particular attention is paid to how the prisoners behaved in captivity, expressed their identities, and how they understood and what they proposed for the ills of their nation. Because of the attitudes of their captors and the naturally unfavorable conditions in the different places of captivity, the Ottoman prisoners in Russia were worse off than their comrades held by the British in Egypt. Differences in the conditions faced are reflected in the reactions of the prisoners to their surroundings. In order to give their lives some semblance of normality, the prisoners—above all the junior officers—attempted to create conditions that were familiar from their homeland. They also became involved in debates that revolved around the issue of how to save their nation. Yet, the idea of nation was a problematic concept for the citizens of a multi-national empire. The evidence shows that multiple layers of identity coexisted, even among the educated junior officers, well into the early 1920s. Despite their attempts to normalize their lives and occupy their minds, the monotonous and dangerous environment of captivity soon started to take its toll on the mental condition of the prisoners. While many succumbed to various mental and nutrition-related diseases while in captivity, the prisoners and their combatant comrades were not taken seriously by the Ottoman physicians, whose diagnostic approaches to war neurotics were shaped by the current practice of their field as it was molded in Europe, especially in Germany. Just as the sufferings of numerous prisoners continued even after repatriation, their sacrifice and captivity experience did not become a part of the memory of war in post-war Turkey.
Dissertation
Ottoman Prisoners of War in Russia, 1914-22
During the Great War, Russia captured over 50,000 Ottoman officers and enlisted men, mostly Turks, who remained in captivity long after the war was over. Drawing on a number of memoirs, provides an account of their captivity in Russia and draws some preliminary conclusions about their behaviour and Ottoman society itself. (Quotes from original text)
Journal Article
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
Yanikdag reviews A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War by by Leila Tarazi Fawaz.
Book Review
