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.
