Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity'
The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations
during World War I, 1914-1923.
by Kenneth Steuer

Appendix A

Prison Camps

Turkish Prision Camps



Bozanti

BOZANTI: This working prison camp was located in south central Anatolia, thirty-eight miles northwest of Adana, in the Vilayet of Adana. The Turks assigned Allied prisoners to work in labor detachments constructing a railroad line through the Cilician Gates, which provided passage through the Bulgar Daglari, a range in the Tarsus Mountains. The Cilician Gates were a strategic pass and a critical link in the Berlin to Baghdad Railway line. The Turks also used Bozanti as a transit camp for Armenian civilians in 1915.