Geneva Convention Prisoners Of War. Text of the provision* (1) prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. The deaths of 13 prisoners during turkish airstrikes in the garê region in iraqi kurdistan have led to heated debates about how they were killed and whether the geneva conventions were breached.

It is this version of the geneva conventions which covered the treatment of prisoners of war during world war ii.it is the predecessor of the third geneva. Its official name is the convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, geneva july 27, 1929.it entered into force 19 june 1931. No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever.