LIVE FOOTAGE: Crowd gathers to welcome released convicts at Silivri Prison

June 19 2014 18:58:33

LIVE FOOTAGE: Crowd gathers to welcome released convicts at Silivri Prison

ISTANBUL

The first convicts released after the ruling were Air Force Colonel Davut İsmet Çınkı and four Navy colonels at Maltepe Prison

The families of the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case convicts, as well as political demonstrators, gathered in front of Istanbul’s Silivri Prison on June 19, after a local court ruled for the release of all convicts for a retrial. The decision came one day after the Constitutional Court ruled that the rights of 230 convicts had been violated.

Former First Army General Çetin Doğan, former Air Force General Halil İbrahim Fırtına, former Navy Admiral Özden Örnek and other high-ranking retired generals were among the suspects whose convictions in the Balyoz case had previously been upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals.

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