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Turkish Mission

Dieterle, Johann Friedrich

1862 May 10 – 1930 December 18

Hintze, Ferdinand Friis

1854 May 13 – 1928 March 9

Laconder, Charles Urbanus

1863 March 3 – 1927 October 31

Sherinian, Nishan Krikor

Alternate Name: Sherinian, Nisham Krikor

1860 January 12 – 1945 June 23

Simmons, Edgar Dilworth

1863 April 25 – 1890 February 4

Sjödahl, Janne Mattson

Alternate Name: Sjodahl

1853 November 29 – 1939 June 23

Smart, William Henry

1862 April 6 – 1937 December 3

Stauffer, Frederick

1866 October 24 – 1939 July 20