Can Dündar once described the prison library of Silivri Sadly I couldn't find a translation in English, but the original in Turkish is also linked http://www.

Can Dündar once described the prison library of Silivri Sadly I couldn't find a translation in English, but the original in Turkish is also linked http://www.zeit.de/2017/43/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-haeftlinge-bibliotheken-autoren http://www.zeit.de/2017/43/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-haeftlin... http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2017-10/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-haeftlinge-bibliotheken-autoren-tuerkisch http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2017-10/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-h... The first paragraph is a rather good summary >Do you know where the literacy rate in Turkey is highest? In Silivri. Because there is Turkey's largest prison, and it is full of writers, journalists, scientists and intellectuals. There is a fairly extensive prison library there, which is steadily growing, as each inmate author asks his publisher for donations or donates his books to the library at the end of his stay. When I was there I happily discovered four of my books in the catalog. Imagine, you are behind bars as "offenders" and your books are there to "help the offenders better them self". Another piece of black humor in this matter: Once a prisoner asked for a book, the librarian's answer was: "We do not have the book, but its author is here."