I am currently working on "Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, and Medicine in Turkey, 1914-1939," a study of how the nation was constructed, which will be released in June 2013. I examine two closely related groups: Ottoman prisoners of war in Russia and Egypt and the Ottoman/Turkish military doctors who cared for them during and after the war. By using captivity narratives, camp newspapers, and post-war military medical reports among others this work explores both how the officer prisoners and military doctors imagined their nation as a collective community, and how they at the same time attempted to exclude, if only temporarily, certain groups they deemed as unworthy from the nation.