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The incident of the '''Twenty Classes''' (]: ''Yirmi Kur'a Nafıa Askerleri''<ref>Rıfat N. Bali, ''Yirmi Kur'a Nafıa Askerleri: II. Dünya Savaşında Gayrimüslimlerin Askerlik Serüveni'', Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2008, ISBN 978-975-9173-86-9. {{Tr icon}}</ref> literally: "Soldiers for Public works by drawing of twenty lots" or ''Yirmi Kur'a İhtiyatlar Olayı''<ref>Elçin Macar, ''İstanbul Rum Patrikhanesi'', İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2003, ISBN 978-975-05-0118-0, {{Tr icon}}</ref><ref name=taraf>], , ''Taraf'', December 16, 2007. {{Tr icon}} ]"]</ref> literally: "Incident of the Reserve soldiers by drawing of twenty lots") was a so-called conscription used by the Turkish government to conscript the male non-Turkish minority population mainly consisting of Armenians, Greeks and Jews during ]. All of the twenty classes were consists of male minority population including the elders and mentally ills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noravank.am/upload/pdf/5.Ruben%20Melkonyan_02_2010.pdf |title=ON SOME PROBLEMS OF THE ARMENIAN NATIONAL MINORITY IN TURKEY |format=pdf |first=Ruben |last=Melkonyan |page=2}}</ref> They were given no weapons and quite often they did not even wear military uniforms. These non-Muslims were gathered in ] where no Turks were enlisted,. They were allegedly forced to work under very bad conditions. The prevailing and widespread point of view on the matter was that wishing to partake in the World War II, Turkey gathered in advance all unreliable non-Turkish men regarded as a "]". |
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The incident of the '''Twenty Classes''' (]: ''Yirmi Kur'a Nafıa Askerleri''<ref>Rıfat N. Bali, ''Yirmi Kur'a Nafıa Askerleri: II. Dünya Savaşında Gayrimüslimlerin Askerlik Serüveni'', Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2008, ISBN 978-975-9173-86-9. {{Tr icon}}</ref> literally: "Soldiers for Public works by drawing of twenty lots" or ''Yirmi Kur'a İhtiyatlar Olayı''<ref>Elçin Macar, ''İstanbul Rum Patrikhanesi'', İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2003, ISBN 978-975-05-0118-0, {{Tr icon}}</ref><ref name=taraf>], , ''Taraf'', December 16, 2007. {{Tr icon}} ]"]</ref> literally: "Incident of the Reserve soldiers by drawing of twenty lots") was a so-called conscription used by the Turkish government to conscript the male non-Turkish minority population mainly consisting of Armenians, Greeks and Jews during ]. All of the twenty classes were consists of male minority population including the elders and mentally ills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noravank.am/upload/pdf/5.Ruben%20Melkonyan_02_2010.pdf |title=ON SOME PROBLEMS OF THE ARMENIAN NATIONAL MINORITY IN TURKEY |format=pdf |first=Ruben |last=Melkonyan |page=2}}</ref> They were given no weapons and quite often they did not even wear military uniforms. These non-Muslims were gathered in ] where no Turks were enlisted,. They were allegedly forced to work under very bad conditions. The prevailing and widespread point of view on the matter was that wishing to partake in the World War II, Turkey gathered in advance all unreliable non-Turkish men regarded as a "]". |
