Kıbrıs'ta Çanakkale Savaş Esirleri ve Savaş Dönemi'nde Adada Yaşananlar

Abstract

As soon as Ottoman Empire took part in World War I, then the British government declared war againts Ottoman Empire confiscating some warships in England. Meanwhile, the island, Cyprus was supposed to be far away from the war itself, on the othe hand, the reality was not so. not only the British government established a POW camp in the area named Karaolos, and France established another military camp so as to train the Armenians gathered from all around the world but mostly captured in Gallipoli in Karaolos Biritish POW camp, French history opened a new page for the Legion D'Orient firstly originated in Egypt in 1916. Therefore opening a new training camp for the Armenians in Cyprus was supposed to be the second stage of Legion D'Orient for France.

Keywords

• Cyprus
• World War
• Ottoman Empire