Silivri Prison

Turkish soldiers guard the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

The former students at the Air Force Academy started to be released from prison early on Wednesday.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals on April 14 overturned a decision on journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilıcak, who were given jail time for links to the FETÖ.

Ilıcak had been sentenced to eight years and nine months and Altan had gotten 10 years and six months in prison for aiding the terror group, which was behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey

Turkish prosecutors on May 8 said that 44 inmates in an Istanbul prison have tested positive for COVID-19.

In a statement, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said two inmates and 42 others who came in contact with them tested positive at Silivri Prison.

An Istanbul court has ordered the arrest of the news editor and a reporter of news website Oda TV over a report on the funeral of a member of the Turkish intelligence service who was killed in Libya.

Oda TV on March 3 showed footage of the funeral in the western province of Manisa, saying the ceremony was held discreetly, without the participation of high-ranking officials.

Novelist and former editor-in-chief of Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan, who was convicted of "aiding" FETÖ, was detained at his home in Istanbul after a court sustained an objection to his release and revoked the release order on Nov. 12.
Altan was released from Silivri Prison following his retrial for "aiding" FETÖ, the group which orchestrated the July 15, 2016 defeated coup attempt.

Deniz Yücel is seen in this file photo in front of Istanbul's Silivri prison

The trial of 20 executives and journalists from daily Cumhuriyet, including the newspaper's editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, reporter Ahmet Şık, columnist Kadri Gürsel and cartoonist Musa Kart, will resume on Sept. 25 at Istanbul's Çağlayan courthouse.  

Amnesty International Secretary-General Salil Shetty on Sept. 9 visited the organization's Turkey director İdil Eser, who was jailed on "terrorism" charges two months ago along with seven other activists, being held in Istanbul's Silivri prison.

Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty on Sept. 6 was not permitted to visit the organization's Turkey director İdil Eser, who was jailed on "terrorism" charges two months ago.

During his visit to Turkey, Shetty applied for authorization to visit to Eser in Istanbul's Silivri Prison but he was not received at the prosecutor's office at the prison.

Ogün Samast, the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has been put in solitary confinement over security concerns, daily Vatan reported on Sept. 1.

He had previously been serving his sentence in a three-person cell at a prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.