ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office with a request to meet with their client.

 

The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan; Raziye Öztürk, Faik Özgür Erol, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office requesting a meeting with their client. The Office of the Chief Prosecutor imposed six-months 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. Lawyers, whose applications for interviews were left inconclusive based on this decision, learned that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment last Januaryç

 

Despite the expiry of the ban on March 23, no positive or 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 clients on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

It was last heard on March 25

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan was made to speak with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.