2 June 1949
Yozgat internment camp → Red Crescent guesthouse, Kastamonu
Yozgat held one of the internment camps that neutral Turkey opened in 1941 for soldiers of belligerent armies who crossed into its territory, with Soviet servicemen the largest group throughout the war. On 2 June 1949 the last 53 refugees were moved to the Red Crescent guesthouse at Kastamonu, which opened that month for them. A Kastamonu newspaper described one of the new arrivals as a Ukrainian Russian, the documented Ukrainian connection within a mixed population.