Family and defensor application for meeting with Abdullah Öcalan 

2021-10-01 16:32:44


	 

	 

	ISTANBUL - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s family and defensor applied for a meeting to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Imralı Prison Directorate.

	 

	PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s brother Mehmet Öcalan and his defensor Mazlum Dinç applied. For other prisoners in Imralı; Ömer Hayri Konar’s brother Ali Konar, Hamili Yıldırım’s brother Polat Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş’s sister Melihe Çetin also applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a meeting.

	 

	Families also applied to the Imralı F Type High Security Closed Prison Directorate for a meeting through Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

	 

	Disciplinary punishments’ expired

	 

	Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office imposed a six-month meeting ban on September 23, 2020, on the grounds of the ‘’Road Map’’ prepared by Abdullah Öcalan in addition to his defense submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2009. Again, in the applications made by the lawyers, it was revealed that a new disciplinary punishment was given to Abdullah Öcalan in January 2021.

	 

	Although the ban ended on March 23, neither a positive nor a negative response is given to the applications made by the lawyers. Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, were able to meet with their client on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

	 

	The last conversation was on March 25

	 

	Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to call on the phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan had a phone conversation with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, as concerns grew in the public due to some of the posts on the digital media. However, Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.