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    The Turkish name İmralı derives from the name of the island's conqueror, Emir Ali, one of the first Ottoman admirals. In 1308 İmralı became the first...
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    İmralı prison is a high-security prison on the island of İmralı in the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. It holds prisoners from the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
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    regarding his status as the only prisoner on İmralı Island until 17 November 2009. In 2010, the CPT visited İmralı prison and noted that Öcalan had received...
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  • shortened Hayes' sentence from life to 30 years; he was transferred to İmralı prison on July 11, 1975. Declassified telegrams from the State Department...
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    İmralı island in the Sea of Marmara. Following the commutation of the death sentence to a life sentence in 2002, Öcalan remained imprisoned on İmralı...
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    Bozcaada, and in the Sea of Marmara are Marmara Island, Avşa, Paşalimanı, İmralı and the Princes' Islands of Istanbul. The Marmara region has a borderline...
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  • 1999 in Nairobi, Kenya and extradited to Turkey. He was imprisoned on the İmralı island in the Sea of Marmara. After his conviction, Öcalan appealed to the...
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  • Polatkan on İmralı island on 16 September 1961, and Adnan Menderes on 17 September 1961. Celal Bayar was not hanged, but imprisoned on İmralı prison. A...
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    tourism degree from university. On 23 December 2013, she visited her uncle at İmralı prison and became known to the media after she gave a press statement detailing...
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    Yassıada trials. Polatkan was sentenced to death and hanged on the island of İmralı on 16 September 1961, as were Adnan Menderes and Fatin Rüştü Zorlu. Many...
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    of seventeen largely uninhabited islands including the prison island of Imralı whose most famous prisoner, since 1999, has been the PKK leader Abdullah...
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    Thursday 3 January 2013: Ahmet Türk and BDP deputy Ayla Akat Ata went to İmralı island where they met Abdullah Öcalan. Wednesday 9 January 2013: Founding...
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    July 2007. "in 99 our leader [Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK] was in İmralı" which led the crowd to chant "Long live Chairman Apo" (Kurdish: Bijî Serok...
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    II, Menderes was executed by the junta at the gallows on the island of İmralı on 17 September 1961. The sentence of ex-President Bayar was commuted to...
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    actor for Turkey's democratization", claiming his "absolute isolation" in İmralı that has lasted for 24 years to be the biggest obstacle to democratization...
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  • much higher. There are currently 13 F-type prisons (14, if the prison on İmralı Island is added) and two D-type prisons (also high security prisons). The...
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  • Diyarbakır Prison, Diyarbakır Hasdal Military Prison, Istanbul İmralı prison, Marmara Sea Metris prison, Istanbul Paşakapısı Prison, Üsküdar, Istanbul...
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    Tao was used as a political prison. Hapishane Adası, former Roman prison İmralı island, location of a prison since 1935 Bass Rock, castle used as a prison...
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    Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader imprisoned in İmralı, Turkey, has become an iconic figure in the region whose ideology of democratic...
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    Zorlu was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on the island of İmralı on 16 September 1961 along with Adnan Menderes and Hasan Polatkan. He approached...
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    Chinese national flag are also prohibited from entering Taiwanese airspace. İmralı island Since October 25, 2015 all traffic by Russian aircraft has been prohibited...
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    original on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2020. "Here's what was talked in İmralı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 17...
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    these, including the former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, were taken to İmralı Island (further southwest, near the southern shoreline of the Sea of Marmara)...
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    March 2013, Daily Milliyet parts ways with prominent journalist Cemal after İmralı leaks debate Sassounian, Harut (5 April 2011). "Cemal Pasha's Grandson Says...
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    services in 1999. Although he is kept in isolation on the prison island of İmralı, Öcalan used his time not only to prepare his defense strategy in the course...
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  • both the government and also the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on İmralı Island. Despite being a left-wing party, the HDP has been accused of negotiating...
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  • section for the criminally insane. The book ends with Hayes being moved to İmralı prison, on an island from which he eventually escapes by stealing a dinghy...
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  • of the CIA. He was then forcibly transferred to Turkey and imprisoned on Imrali island where he faced trial. Also, MIT has rescued an Italian citizen, Silvia...
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  • School Command and Gendarmarie School, he went through commando training. At İmralı Island, He interrogated Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Öcalan...
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    Othonoi  Greece 10.1 3.9 392 Othonoi Thymaina  Greece 10.1 3.9 143 Thymaina Imrali  Turkey 10 3.9 Ist  Croatia 9.65 3.73 202 Filicudi  Italy 9.5 3.7 235 Therasia...
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