Konstanti N. Kurkcuoglu's diary is a very rare and special diary. This is not only because it is the first time such a testimony covering the twelve months of the labour battalions of 1943 in Turkey is being published, but also because the diary of Konstanti N. Kurkcuoglu describes in a direct manner the circumstances under which dozens of minority citizens who could not pay the tax on capital were obliged to servein the labour battalions. Konstanti Kurkcuoglu's testi mony records this period fr ...