Turkish POWs sent to Burma

[Peter H]

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/deta ... y&link=437

Thayet Myo Turkish Cemetery (Burma): Most of the 12,000 Turkish soldiers who were captured by British troops during World War I and taken to Burma, which was then a British colony, died here. Some 1,500 Turkish soldiers who died under adverse labor and prison conditions or due to disease were buried here. The fate of the remaining soldiers is not known. It is one of the most neglected Turkish cemeteries abroad. Although the Office of the Chief of General Staff wanted to restore it in 2002, the Myanmar government refused permission.

[seljuk]

for pictures.
http://www.fotografya.gen.tr/cnd/index.php?solanrenkler

I really want to know how England sent pows very far away place like this?

[Peter H]

Thanks.

I assume Turks captured in Mesopotamia were sent to camps in India.Whether they were then onsent to Buddhist Burma,as India with its large Muslim minority may have been seen as a place of discord,is another matter.

[Paul kyre]

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/deta ... y&link=437

Thayet Myo Turkish Cemetery (Burma): Most of the 12,000 Turkish soldiers who were captured by British troops during World War I and taken to Burma, which was then a British colony, died here. Some 1,500 Turkish soldiers who died under adverse labor and prison conditions or due to disease were buried here. The fate of the remaining soldiers is not known. It is one of the most neglected Turkish cemeteries abroad. Although the Office of the Chief of General Staff wanted to restore it in 2002, the Myanmar government refused permission.

The burmese military government showed its refusal about the situation about the turkish cemetery in Burma-
anyway, they showed that these turks are just foreigners, or muslims-that the burmese government didnt support
they support the majority, which is the buddhists.