--- title: Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien (War Welfare for the Turkish Troops in Galicia) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kriegsfuersorge-tuerkische-truppen-galizien-1916/ description: 'Bilingual German and Ottoman Turkish poster: an Austro-Hungarian and an Ottoman soldier shake hands before a rising sun, with a minaret skyline behind…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien (War Welfare for the Turkish Troops in Galicia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kriegsfuersorge-tuerkische-truppen-galizien-1916.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kriegsfuersorge-tuerkische-truppen-galizien-1916.jpg) # Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien (War Welfare for the Turkish Troops in Galicia) Bilingual German and Ottoman Turkish poster: an Austro-Hungarian and an Ottoman soldier shake hands before a rising sun, with a minaret skyline behind them, above the appeal 'Remember the Turkish brothers-in-arms!'. The handshake at sunrise and the paired 1916 dates attach the alliance's warmth to a collection for Ottoman troops. - **Date:** 1916 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien (relief committee), Vienna; printed by A. Luigard, Vienna - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Austria Hungary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=austria-hungary) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [NGO](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=ngo) - **Regime:** [Austria Hungary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=austria-hungary) - **Leader:** [Franz Joseph I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=franz-joseph-i) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise) - **Themes:** [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (cites Imperial War Museum)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kriegsf%C3%BCrsorge_f%C3%BCr_die_t%C3%BCrkischen_Truppen_in_Galizien.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published in Vienna in 1916; Commons PD-anon and pre-1931) Imperial War Museum collection, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1916 ١٩١٦ غالیچیاده حرب ایدن عساکر عثمانیه یه معاونت جمعیتی Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien. Gedenket der türkischen Waffenbrüder! Wien, I., Stubenring 8, im Gebäude der n.-ö. Handels- und Gewerbekammer. [printer's imprint, small print, bottom right: partly illegible] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 1916 1916 (in Arabic-script numerals) Society for aid to the Ottoman soldiers fighting in Galicia [Ottoman Turkish] War welfare for the Turkish troops in Galicia. Remember the Turkish brothers-in-arms! Vienna, 1st district, Stubenring 8, in the building of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Trade. [printer's imprint, small print, bottom right: partly illegible] ``` The Ottoman Turkish line is in Arabic script; the reading of its first and last words is the least certain. The imprint is too small to read; the printer's name comes from the Commons file record. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. [← W. M. Hughes, M.H.R.: "In no circumstances would I agree to send men out of the country to fight against their will" (No-Conscription Campaign)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-no-circumstances-hughes-no-conscription-1916/) [On les aura! 2e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Souscrivez (We'll get them! Second National Defence Loan. Subscribe) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-les-aura-1916/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)