Silivri Prison

Prominent journalist Ahmet Şık has been kept in isolation in prison, according to his lawyer who recently visited him. 

Şık, who was arrested on Dec. 30, 2016, over several tweets and his articles for daily Cumhuriyet, was denied drinking water for three days and has not had access to the news, daily Cumhuriyet reported Jan. 6. 

A convict who was serving his sentence at the Silivri prison in Istanbul set himself afire on Nov. 29, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A number of firefighters and police units were immediately dispatched to the prison in the afternoon hours upon a fire warning.

The year was 1969; the incident I am going to tell happened that year during the beginning of an election campaign. Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Ali İhsan Göğüş paid a visit to party chair İsmet İnönü at his home and presented the candidate list to him that was to be handed over to the election council. Two journalists were accompanying him.

Sixteen people, including 12 foreign nationals, have been arrested as part of an anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) operation to prevent infiltration into Syria from the southern province of Kahramanmara?. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to neighboring Iran this week, his office said.

Davuto?lu will visit Tehran on March 4 and 5, sources from his office told reporters late on March 2, noting that details concerning the visit had not yet been completed. 

Turkey has said it had proposed signing agreements with 14 countries on the return of migrants from EU member states.

Ankara had "offered to conclude readmission deals with 14 countries", foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç said at a weekly news conference without naming the countries.    

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has called the daily Cumhuriyet report on intelligence trucks bound for Syria "espionage against the state." 

"There is an issue of espionage in the [Cumhuriyet's] National Intelligence Agency (M?T) reports. Literally, the subject is about aid materials sent to Bay?rbucak Türkmens, not about the two journalists expressing their opinion," Davuto?lu said.

Istanbul Governor Vasip ?ahin has met with leading figures from the three main religions in the metropolis to obtain information on the activities of Turkey's Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on March 2, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicentre was 808 km (502 miles) southwest of Padang, USGS said. It was 10 km (six miles) deep. 

The International Press Institute (IPI) Turkey National Committee has paid a visit to Cumhuriyet journalist Can Dündar who was released early on Feb. 26 after 92 days in Silivri Prison together with Erdem Gül, the Ankara bureau chief of the newspaper.