ABSTRACT
After being in the military prison for five months, prisoners were transferred to the large jail near the government buildings in the city, and the author's case was assigned to the criminal court. This jail had several advantages. There were six large, barn-like rooms with dirt floors as in the other prison, but these were arranged around a large, open court with a fountain in the center. Each room had one or two windows with iron grills facing the courtyard. Hakim Agha and another wealthy Kurd, Mustafa Agha, were leaders of a group that had rioted in the city. Thirty of their men had been imprisoned with them. They had attacked a prison in Diarbakir, killed two gendarmes, and taken all the Kurdish prisoners there out with them. The most distinguished prisoner in the complex was the Kurd Abdullah Agha, thirty-five years old, wealthy, handsome, and well-mannered but extremely cruel.
