ISTANBUL - The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan once again applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, requesting a meeting with their client.

 

The lawyers of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Mazlum Dinç, İbrahim Bilmez, Newroz Uysal and Serbay Köklü, made a new application to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, requesting a meeting with their client.

 

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. Although the ban ended on March 23, no response was given to the applications made by the lawyers until March. However, the lawyers of the PKK leader, in a statement they made in the past weeks, stated that a new disciplinary punishment was given to their clients as of January, and that they only learned about it in March.

 

Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, Rezan Sarıca and Nevroz Uysal, were able to meet with their clients on May 2-22, June 12-18, and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

The last phone call was made on March 25

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held in İmralı for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020, during the pandemics. Abdullah Öcalan had a telephone call with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, following allegations about his health and safety conditions. However, Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.