//Ed. note: In the upcoming weeks and months TNT will be
scrubbing its archives for unique historical material to present
to readers.
Herewith the first installment - the remarkable story of Tahir
Baykal, a Turkish soldier captured by the Russians at Erzurum
in 1916 during World War I. Baykal, spent his first years in
Russia in POW camps, eventually escaping from one near Lake
Baykal in Siberia (from whence he took his surname years later.)
Subsequently, Baykal fled east and they west along the Trans-
Siberian Railroad, with a detour through Harbin, China, as the
Russian Revolution roiled around him. A few years in Moscow
prisons followed before his return to Turkey, where he was
obliged to soldier on in the Turkish War of Independence.//
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