A Turkish criminal court on Tuesday ordered the release of retired General Hursit Tolon, who was under arrest on a charge of being involved in the murder of three Christian missionaries.
Tolon is expected to come out of the Silivri Prion in Istanbul in a few hours' time, his lawyer Ilkay Sezer said.
He was arrested in January 2013 as part of the "Zirve Publishing House case" on the murder of three Christian missionaries working for a Bible publishing house.
Zirve Publishing House was raided in Malatya on April 18, 2007, and the three including one German national were stabbed in the throat, inciting a public outcry.
Tolon had also been convicted as part of the "Ergenekon case," which probed into a shadowy network of hardline nationalists who were accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
On March 11, a Turkish criminal court ruled to release Tolon from the case, but he could not be freed from prison as he was under arrest as part of the Zirve case.
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