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Labour battalions (Turkey)
Form of unfree labour in the late Ottoman Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For more information on similar units, see labour battalion. For Turkish labour battalions during World War II, see The Twenty Classes.
Ottoman labour battalions (Turkish: Amele Taburları, Armenian: Աշխատանքային գումարտակ, romanized: Ashkhatank’ayin gumartak, Greek: Τάγματα Εργασίας, romanized: Tagmata Ergasias[lower-alpha 1]) was a form of unfree labour in the late Ottoman Empire. The term is associated with the disarmament and murder of Ottoman Armenian soldiers during World War I,[1][2] of Ottoman Greeks during the Greek genocide in the Ottoman Empire[3] and also during the Turkish War of Independence.[4][5][6]
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