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Cadets convicted on coup charges released pending retrial after 6 years in prison
More than 60 former air force cadets who were convicted on coup charges and sentenced to life in prison due to their alleged role...
Opposition politician sent to Silivri Prison to serve sentence
Canan Kaftancıoğlu, head of the İstanbul branch of Turkey’s main opposition party, has been sent to the notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul to serve...
Mother of former military cadet says son’s cell lacks heating and warm water
Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...
3 military cadets free after spending 5 years in prison on coup charges
Three former military cadets who had been incarcerated in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison for more than five years on coup charges have been released...
50 have died of COVID-19 in Turkey’s jails since start of pandemic: prison authority
A top Turkish prison authority has said 50 inmates have died of COVID-19 in Turkey’s jails since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in...
Prosecutor drops negligence charges in case of critically ill inmate released 2 weeks before death
The Silivri Public Prosecutor’s Office said there were no grounds for legal action in the case of Deniz Hakan Şen, an inmate who died...
Number of inmates with coronavirus in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison increases to 191: deputy
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an opposition member of the Turkish parliament and a rights activist, tweeted late on Sunday that eight inmates from İstanbul’s notorious...
Top court rejects former inmate’s petition over violation of right to communicate with family
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found inadmissible a petition from a former inmate who claimed that his right to communicate with his family had been...
Jailed journalist Ünal says Quranic verse considered terror evidence against him
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily, has said his arrest lacks any legal...
Turkish journalists ‘forgotten in Silivri Prison’ say they expect justice
"We are forgotten journalists in Silivri Prison,” said a group of Turkish journalists who are being held in İstanbul's Silivri Prison as part of...
Jailed journalist Gündem to appear in court for first time in 9 months
Jailed journalist Mehmet Gündem, who was arrested in November 2017 on terror charges, will appear in court for the first time in the nine...
Jailed Zaman journalist Alkan says no regrets about his writings, ready to die in jail
Ahmet Turan Alkan, a columnist from the now-closed Zaman daily who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on...
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