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
- Made by
- Kriegsfürsorge für die türkischen Truppen in Galizien (relief committee), Vienna; printed by A. Luigard, Vienna
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Austria Hungary
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Austria Hungary
- Leader
- Franz Joseph I
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (cites Imperial War Museum), 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
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]
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.
