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TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, vol.12, no.6, pp.709-714, 2013 (Scopus, TRDizin)
By the historical development of the regular armies major problems have emerged regarding the human resource such as how to choose the recruits, what will be their physical and psychological qualifications, and how to manage the logical needs of divorce group of soldiers. Various governments applied many different systems considering their local culture, ethnicity, socio-economic structures, historical background to overcome such difficulties. Ottomans were not an exception and they employed several military enrolment strategies related to the political changes. History records that often some of the major causes for military casualties are sicknesses, untreated wounds and hygienic problems rather than direct shots. Thus, militaries strived to choose physically and mentally the strongest soldiers and stabilize them on duty by the best medical care. In our study we had an overlook to the military recruitment strategies of several governments on the late 19th century and analyzed the statistics on the reasons of war causalities. As a case study we focused on the April 29th 1914 dated Medical principles of the Ottoman Military Conscription (Mukellefiyet-i Askeriye) Laws.