Originally designed to be Turkey's largest jail, the Silivri prison opened in 2008 and has since become Europe's largest high-security penal facility. It was renamed in 2022.

45 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds who were angered by what ...

Turkey's parliament swore in five pro-Kurdish lawmakers on Tuesday after they were freed from prison during their trial on charges linking them to armed militants, lifting hopes for a shaky peace ...

Helicopters buzzed overhead and soldiers besieged inmates barricaded inside in the last Turkish prison holding out against authorities, after more than 158 left-wing inmates in another prison ...