Beschreibung

Labor battalions during the Turkish War of Independence constituted a particular military service: one in which recruits were disarmed at conscription and where the main goal of mobilization was to prevent local non-Muslims from crossing over to the enemy side.
By means of Haim Albükrek's journal kept (in French) for six months while in the army in 1921, Leyla Neyzi introduces the little known experience of the ordinary Ottoman soldier during the 'Turkish War of Independence'.