GREEK PRISONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY IN EARLY 1924 & THE INFAMOUS LABOR BATTALIONS By Stavros T. Stavridis Published in The National Herald, August 28, 2018 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ At the end of the Greek-Turkish war in September,1922, the Kemalists detained Greek males aged 17-45 and deported them to work in the infamous labor battalions in the Anatolian interior. The vast majority of these were Anatolian Greeks and also captured Greek soldiers. These men suffered terribly at the hands of their Turkish captors with many of them perishing from thirst, disease, exhaustion, exposure, and beatings. The two Greek-American daily newspapers – Atlantis and National Herald – published an account of Greek prisoners of war and interned civilians detained in Turkey in J...