@article{2016,title={Captivity in India: Turkish Prisoners in India During and After World War I},abstractNode={Near about fifteen thousand Turks taken captive by the English in Iraq, Sinai, Palestine, Channel fronts in First World War, were taken to Egypt before and after Bellary, Sumerpur, Tongnung prisoner camps in India and to Station camp in Calcutta. During their long captivity, Turkish prisoners in India have suffered a lot because of inability to get information from their families, poverty, apathy, nutrition and spiritual crises caused by stay in captivity long time and diseases due to the effect of debilitating and exhausting over the long term. Despite all of, they also had tried to pursue a vibrant social and cultural life with their concerts by the musical instruments which were made by themselves, their published newspapers, new languages that they tried to learn in camps. Important part of the information about Turkish prisoners in India is located in the archive of The Red Cross. The Red Cross organization has circulated as the groups and obtained extensive information about these regions. Delegates in the Red Cross commission in visited camps, listened to the complaints and requests of the prisoners, did reviews and kept the reports. The return of Turkish prisoners starting in 1918 had lasted until the end of 1922 by reluctance by English on purpose. The martyrdoms were made for hundreds martyrs who lost their lives in camps but some of them has disappeared today. Our prisoners, who died during their captivity in India for various reasons, were buried with both official and religious ceremony by camp management and their fellow prisoners. Then here were public cemetery, even transformed into martyrdom. There are two Turkish martyrdoms in official status as martyrdom in India. One of them is the Bellary Turkish cemetery in the state of Karnata. The other is the Sumerpur Turkish cemetery in the state of Rajasthan in India.},author={Ali ALTIKULAÇ-- Ayşegül DÖNMEZ},year={2016},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}