Application for meeting with Abdullah Öcalan  

2021-11-12 16:40:54


	 

	 

	ISTANBUL - Families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş held in Imralı Prison applied to the prosecution office and the prison directorate for a meeting.

	 

	Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s brother Mehmet Öcalan and his defensor Mazlum Dinç applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, requesting a meeting. 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 for a meeting on Monday.

	 

	The families also applied to the Imralı F-Type High Security Closed Penal Institution Directorate for a meeting through the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

	 

	No response to the applications

	 

	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 (ECtHR) 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 meeting ban ended on March 23, the applications made by the lawyers are not responded to either positively or negatively. 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 phone call was on March 25

	 

	Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under heavy isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to make phone calls for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan spoke to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, when public concerns grew due to some news in the media. However, Mehmet Öcalan announced that this phone call was interrupted.