Notable Inmates
The prison hosted also many intellectuals, who were charged for political reasons.
- Devlet II Giray, Crimean Khan (1713)
- Refik Halit Karay, journalist and novelist (1913)
- Mustafa Suphi, journalist and communist politician (1913)
- Ahmet Bedevi Kuran, politician (1913)
- Refii Cevat Ulunay, journalist (1914)
- Hüseyin Hilmi, socialist politician
- Burhan Felek, journalist
- Osman Cemal Kaygılı, teacher and writer (1913)
- Zekeriya Sertel, journalist (1925–1928)
- Sabahattin Ali, writer, poet and journalist (1932)
- Kerim Korcan, novelist
- Osman Deniz, army officer
- Nazım Hikmet, poet
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