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KT News:
Lawyers for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Turkey’s Imrali island, yesterday filed a request for his retrial, on the grounds that recent changes in the law could pave the way for a fairer trial.
According to Firat News Agency (ANF) and bianet, Öcalan’s advocates have submitted the request to Ankara 11th High Criminal Court, where he was originally convicted, on the grounds of the amended jurisdiction on retrial in Law 6459 Article 21 within the judicial reforms introduced in April.
Rezzan Sarica, one of Öcalan’s advocates, told Reuters: “I don’t believe the court will see this case as linked with the process. It has to do with the change in regulations.” However, Reuters quotes an anonymous Justice Ministry official as saying that a retrial would be “impossible”.
