• View of the Sinope-Kastamuni Road, a project constructed by Allied POW labor, probably from the prison camp at Kastamuni. Although slow and accident prone (in other words, skilled practioners of sabotage), the Turks preferred Allied prisoner labor for their road and railroad construction projects. Source: Keeling, Adventures in Turkey and Russia, 1924, 124.

Source: Keeling, Adventures in Turkey and Russia, 1924, 124.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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