President Celal Bayar, prime minister Adnan Menderes and several other members of the administration were put on trial before a kangaroo court appointed by the junta on the island Yassıada in the Sea of Marmara.
One such person was the Armenian Patriarch (Catholicos) Narses who was first sent to this island before being imprisoned at Büyükada in the 4th century AD.
Yassıada |
In 1857, Yassıada was purchased by the British ambassador Henry Bulwer, brother of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who built himself a mansion and a number of other structures to live undisturbed on this distant island.