{"id":12909,"date":"2026-07-31T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/korydallos-prison-riot-turkish-inmates-set-fire-to-e\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:30:21","slug":"korydallos-prison-riot-turkish-inmates-set-fire-to-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/korydallos-prison-riot-turkish-inmates-set-fire-to-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Korydallos prison riot: Turkish inmates set fire to E&#8217; wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A prison riot erupted at Korydallos prison on Friday after Turkish inmates set fire to the facility&#8217;s E wing, triggering an emergency response. Strong firefighting units have rushed to the scene to bring the situation under control and extinguish the flames.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports, the tension began over the imminent extradition of a Turkish inmate of Kurdish origin, who was due to be transferred to Turkey. Inmates reacted strongly to this development, causing unrest that culminated in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are currently attempting to restore order, while the situation remains ongoing. Further details are expected in the coming hours as information continues to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Newsbreak<\/em> reports in its coverage, the incident highlights once again the tensions that exist inside prisons when extradition issues are involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish inmates set fire to Greece&#8217;s Korydallos prison Friday in protest over the planned extradition of a Kurdish-origin prisoner to Turkey, prompting an emergency firefighting response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":12908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[10599,100,1826,10598,8855,10597],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fire","tag-greece","tag-korydallos-prison","tag-kurdish-extradition","tag-prison-riot","tag-turkish-inmates","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}