Yassıada
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| Waters | Sea of Marmara | |
| Archipelago | Prince Islands | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 51 '52 " N , 28 ° 59' 36" E | |
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| length | 740 m | |
| width | 185 m | |
| surface | 5 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 46 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Yassıada ( Greek Πλάτη Plati ) is one of the Prince Islands in the Marmara Sea . The island has an area of five hectares and has been uninhabited since 1995. Yassıada became known through the Yassıada trials . Since 2013 the island has also been called "Demokrasi ve Özgürlükler Adası" (Island of Democracy and Freedoms).
history
Yassıada was used by the Byzantines as a place of exile for known people. In the 4th century, the Armenian patriarch Narses I was the first to be exiled to Yassıada and later imprisoned on Büyükada . From the 9th century, the Byzantines banished political prisoners to Yassıada, including Theophylaktos Rhangabe and Konstantin Dalassenos . The remains of four prison cells from this period are still preserved. Emperor Theophilos had a monastery built on the island. In 860 the Patriarch Ignatios I built a church in the middle of Yassıada. During the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Latins conquered the island. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the island belonged to the Ottoman Empire .
In 1857 the British ambassador Henry Bulwer, brother of the author Edward Bulwer-Lytton, bought the island and built a property and a small castle-like building there to live undisturbed. The tiny castle and the associated quay still stand today. Henry Bulwer supplied his small empire self-sufficiently to a certain extent through an independent agriculture. He later sold the island to the Khedive Ismail Pasha , who owned the facilities.
With the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the island was handed over to the Turkish and in 1947 to the Navy , which built several teaching facilities there. After the military coup in 1960, an exceptional court was set up on Yassıada . The government of the Democrat Parti under Prime Minister Adnan Menderes was charged . In the end, 15 politicians were sentenced to death and three of them - including Adnan Menderes - were executed on the prison island of İmralı . Then the island was returned to the Navy, which trained its members here until 1978.
In 1993 Yassıada became the property of the Faculty of Water Management at İstanbul Üniversitesi . Because of the adverse wind conditions on the island, which made teaching difficult, the faculty was relocated in 1995. The island has been uninhabited since then. Today it is a popular place for sport and amateur divers.
In July 2011 it became known that Yassıada would be converted into a kind of museum island. In the course of this, the name of the island was changed in 2013 and the island was released for building. Museums and hotels were to be built and construction began in 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ notification in the Official Journal Resmi Gazete from December 14, 2013
- ^ Yassiada to Become Museum Island . ibb.gov.tr, July 27, 2011