Baghche

Turkish internment camp in Armenia during World War I; many of the British prisoners captured after the fall of Kut al-Imara 1916 were held here. Conditions were so bad that many of the prisoners died and the camp medical officer, Assistant-Surgeon Fratel, was later court-martialled in London for ill-treating the prisoners. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment 1918 but was released after the war ended.