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‘Alcatraz of Anatolia’: Turkey’s historical Sinop Prison draws 500,000 visitors

Known as the "Alcatraz of Anatolia," Turkey's historical Sinop Fortress Prison saw a surge of visitors in 2018, welcoming nearly 500,000 guests.

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Perhaps the most well-known inmate was Turkish novelist Sabahattin Ali, who wrote his works "Kuyucaklı Yusuf" and "Aldırma Gönül" while serving a sentence for writing poems critical of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.