ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and Imralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client.

 

The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş made a new application to meet with their clients. Lawyers Faik Özgür Erol, Raziye Öztürk, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli applied to both the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Imralı Prison Directorate with a request to meet with their clients.

 

The Office of the Chief Prosecutor 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. Lawyers, whose applications for meetings were left inconclusive based on this decision, learned that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment last January. However, despite the expiry of this ban on March 23, no positive or negative response is given to the applications made by the lawyers.

 

Application to the ECtHR

 

On the other hand, the lawyers brought to the ECtHR on 22-24 September that Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş were prevented from meeting with their families and that the Constitutional Court found this lawful. The Constitutional Court has not yet decided on the lawyers’ application for Abdullah Öcalan.

 

The last conversation was held on March 25

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, last met their client on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

Abdullah Öcalan was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan was once again made to talk to his brother Mehmet Öcalan over the phone on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.