Safar Barlik

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The Seferberlik was the mobilisation effected by the late Ottoman Empire during the Second Balkan War of 1913 and World War I from 1914 to 1918, which involved the forced conscription of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Kurdish men to fight on its behalf as well as the deportation of 'numerous Lebanese & Syrian & Kurdish families' to Anatolia under Djemal (Cemal) Pasha's orders. Lebanese Syrians and Kurdish men accused of desertion were executed, and some 300,000 of the Arabs and Kurds who stayed behind died in the Lebanon famine, as Lebanon and Syria lost 75 to 90 percent of their crop production. Prostitution and cannibalism were also mentioned in reports or memoirs written after the end of the war.