User:Lutfensilmeyinartıkhesabımı3/Seydibeşir Incident

It is the action carried out by the British in the Seydibeshir Camp against the Ottoman soldiers in the 48th Regiment of the 16th Division, who were captured in 1918 in the Hejaz-Yemen Front. 15,000 Ottoman soldiers were blinded, who were put into the water-filled cauldrons in which a large amount of Cresol was added, under the pretext of killing germs.

The Incident
The incident took place in the Seydibeşir concentration camp. Ottoman soldiers were put into water-filled cauldrons in which a large amount of chrysoline was placed by Armenian and English doctors, on the pretext of being cleaned from germs. The Ottoman soldiers, whose bodies were burned, did not want to put their heads in the cauldron at first. Their heads were forced into the cauldrons by the British firing in the air and the butt strikes. Later, the soldiers who took their heads out of the cauldron lost their sight by burning their eyes.

Reactions
Edirne deputies Mehmet Şeref and Faik Kaltakkıran submitted a motion to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 21 May 1921. They wanted the Parliament to take action to punish the British doctor, garrison commander and soldiers involved in the incident. The Parliament, dealing with other problems, could not pay enough attention to the event.

In 2009, MHP Group Deputy Chairman Oktay Vural gave a parliamentary question on the subject. Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gönül stated that such an event did not take place. Historian Cezmi Yurtsever, on the other hand, said that he did not find Vecdi Gönül's statement convincing and stated that such an event took place.

Written Works Related to the Subject

 * Gözlerim Eyvah - Cezmi Yurtsever