Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author's note on usage
- List of maps and figures
- List of tables
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND CAPTIVITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT
- 2 IMAGINING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT: A COMPARISON
- 3 SAVIOUR SONS OF THE NATION: INSIDE THE PRISONERS' MINDS
- 4 PRISONERS AS DISEASE CARRIERS: CASES OF PELLAGRA AND TRACHOMA
- 5 WAR NEUROSES AND PRISONERS OF WAR: WARTIME NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL INTERPRETATION
- 6 DEGENERATIONIST PATHWAY TO EUGENICS: NEUROPSYCHIATRY, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND ANXIETIES OVER NATIONAL HEALTH
- EPILOGUE: THE SEARCH FOR A USEABLE PAST: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND TURKISH NATIONALISM
- Bibliography
- Index
INTRODUCTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author's note on usage
- List of maps and figures
- List of tables
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND CAPTIVITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT
- 2 IMAGINING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY IN RUSSIA AND EGYPT: A COMPARISON
- 3 SAVIOUR SONS OF THE NATION: INSIDE THE PRISONERS' MINDS
- 4 PRISONERS AS DISEASE CARRIERS: CASES OF PELLAGRA AND TRACHOMA
- 5 WAR NEUROSES AND PRISONERS OF WAR: WARTIME NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL INTERPRETATION
- 6 DEGENERATIONIST PATHWAY TO EUGENICS: NEUROPSYCHIATRY, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND ANXIETIES OVER NATIONAL HEALTH
- EPILOGUE: THE SEARCH FOR A USEABLE PAST: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE OTTOMAN GREAT WAR AND TURKISH NATIONALISM
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It was almost noon on 25 June 1922, when a ship named Ümit (Hope) slowly pulled up to the Zeytinburnu port in Istanbul. It was carrying hundreds of Ottoman-Turkish passengers – released prisoners of war – whose long and strange trip had started in a carrier with a Japanese flag from Vladivostok, Russia's major port on the Sea of Japan. The passengers were Ottoman prisoners of war being repatriated after spending years in captivity in Siberia. Everyone was on deck. Those who hailed from the city or had deployed from there were seeing the capital of the Ottoman Empire, or what remained of it, for the first time since their deployment. In 1914, when the Ottomans entered the Great War, Istanbul was bustling with Ottoman soldiers on their way to the scattered fronts where they would be expected to fight for the empire. Now, eight years later, the city to which they returned was under allied occupation, and had been since the end of the war in November 1918. The city was still crowded with soldiers, but this time the soldiers were from the occupation forces.
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- Healing the NationPrisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939, pp. 1 - 13Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2013