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



Mosul

MOSUL: Mosul was a critical defensive position and served as the headquarters for the XII Army Corps at the beginning of the Great War. The Turks incarcerated British and Indian prisoners captured at Kut-al-Amara in Mosul. The city was located in the Vilayet of Mosul in eastern Kurdistan, on the west bank of the Tigris River. The city was 220 miles north-northwest of Baghdad and lay on the Constantinople to Baghdad Railway line.