Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Jan. 5 he would favor retrials for hundreds of military officers jailed for coup-plotting.
"Our position on a retrial is a favourable one," he told reporters in Istanbul before taking off on a tour of Asia.
"First we must establish the legal grounding for fresh trials," he said, offering no further details but adding he hoped to obtain parliament's support for the process.
Erdoggn's statement comes after a weekend meeting with Metin Feyzioglu, head of of the Union of Bar Associations (TBB), who submitted proposals to clear the way for the retrial of jailed officers.
Feyzioglu announced that the Bar Associations would start working in cooperation with the Justice Ministry to prepare a concrete proposal, expressing hope that this would be ready after Erdogan returns from a week-long visit to the Far East.
The new development comes after the military command requested a review of the mass trials, including the Ergenekon and the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) cases, that sent hundreds of officers behind bars in 2012 and 2013, arguing that some of the evidence against them was fabricated.
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