A Prisoner in Turkey

The author recounts his experience as a British prisoner in Turkey during the Great War, combining personal narrative with extracts from an official report to document conditions and mortality. He describes stark contrasts of treatment—occasional courtesy, widespread neglect, and episodes of deliberate brutality—detailing squalid hospitals, inadequate medical care, prisons used as clearing‑houses, and brutal punishments including routine flogging at certain camps such as Afion and Angora. Official figures are quoted to show thousands captured and a heavy death toll. The account also refers briefly to the contemporaneous state‑sanctioned massacres of Armenians and directs readers to official documentation for details.