A Turkish funeral with Turkish and German soldiers and officers attending and praying. Is this a young Mustapha Kemal praying?

Türk[isches] Begräbnis



Turkish funeral

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Monday, August 21, 1916

"Through its retreat and panics the [Turkish] Third Army had lost a great part of its strength, because thousands of men left the ranks without leave. About the middle of August [1916] the Third Army reported the capture of 13,000 deserters. The prefect of Sivas had engaged to apprehend and collect 30,000 deserters in a short time."

Quotation Context

Russian forces under General Nicholai Yudenich has repeatedly defeated Turkish forces of the Second and Third Armies in the mountains of Eastern Turkey, and held a line from the Black Sea to Persia.

Source

Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders, page 130, publisher: The Battery Press with War and Peace Books, publication date: 1928 (originally)

Tags

1916-08-21, 1916, August, Caucasus Front, Caucasus Mountains, Turkish soldier, Turkish army