A picture of the main building of the Sinop Prison
Sinop Prison and its history
Sinop Prison is a high place of nematism, covered with sea on three sides. It was used as a castle when it was first built. This castle was built by the Seljuks on 1214 AD. This fortress, which is used for protection purposes, protects and strengthens them by hosting Greek, Pontus, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman houses.
Sinop Prison, which was used for fortress and protection purposes until 1568, proved to be used as a prison for the first time in old historical documents. It was in 1887 that this was officially a prison. Veysel Pasha, who is Sinop Possessor, added new buildings to this castle and also built a bath, but in 1979 the rebellion was finally burnt. This two-storey U-shaped ward was also built in 1939 with a two-story, nine-warded children's ward.
Sinop Prison, known as "Alcatraz of Anatolia" at the time, was completely closed down by the Ministry of Culture in 1999 and turned into a museum. Sinop Prison, poets, artists, writers have seen and hosted many tarihe witnesses. Sinop Prison is a place especially famous for its high walls. 11 bastions, 22 and 18 meters high, and 3 meters thick walls with no birds flying from this place nor anyone escaped. In this place where even the birds can not fly away, 2 people tried to escape from the canal, while the other was caught.
Sinop Prison has 28 wards and more than 300 cells consisting of 3 parts. In these areas, children are specially allocated to special wards, ladies and men. In addition to these, there are rooms, such as small gardens, cells, dungeons, various workshops, wards, large observation posts in important places, former prisoner transport, accounting, administrative building, infirmary, prosecutor's room, old beds.
Sinop Prison has hosted many prisoners and has hosted important and famous people among these prisoners. In these names, Sabahattin Ali, one of the most important fathers, has been instrumental in writing his works for many years. Thanks to the 10th year of the Republic, he has come out with amnesty.
In addition to Sabahattin Ali, Osman Deniz, Kerim Kocan, Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Zekeriya Sertel Mustafa Suphi, Refik Halit Karay, Refi Cevat, Ahmet Bedevi Kuran, Hüseyin Hilmi, Burhan Felek, Hüseyin Pehlivan and other registered friars are also included.
Sinop Prison is a place where not only innocent but also murderers and cruel people. There are even murderers here to try the knives you've made here. Albanian Halil Bey, among the most brutal killers among them, was first sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, then killed 8 people and sentenced to 115 years. İzmir Nazif was punished for 130 years because of the punishment he committed. Elbasan Ramazan has been punished for 200 years because of the punishment he has committed more cruelly. Kurt Haydar has been sentenced to 150 years. Many other cruel killers like these are here.
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Historical Sinop Prison Visiting Times
April 15 / October 2 Summer Opening Time: 09:00
April 15 / October 2 Summer Closing Time: 19:00
October 3 / April 14 Winter Opening Time: 08:00
3 October / 14 April Winter Closing Time: 17:00
There is no holiday for the museum. It is open every day of the week.Historical Sinop Prison Museum entrance fee was 5 TL when i was there.
Location of the Historical Sinop Prison
The prison is located in the village of Osmaniye in Sinop province center. The prison address is like this; Kaleyazısı Mahallesi, Cumhuriyet Cd. No: 18, 57000 Osmaniye Village / Sinop Center. Of course if you want to visit there from outside of Turkiye ,at first you need to fly to IStanbul and then come to Sinop.
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