ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and Imralı Prison Directorate, demanding an ‘’immediate meeting’’ with their client.

 

Lawyers of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Faik Özgür Erol, Raziye Öztürk, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Directorate of Imralı Penal Institution, requesting an ‘’immediate meeting’’ with their client.

 

Two new disciplinary punishments

 

Lawyers applied for an ‘’immediate meeting’’ with their client Abdullah Öcalan to the Bursa Judgeship of Execution on November 22, as no positive or negative response was given to their twice weekly applications.

 

Responding to the application, the Judgeship rejected the application, stating that there were two new meeting bans about Abdullah Öcalan. The Judgeship cited the decisions that the six-month visitation ban on October 12 and the three-month family visitation ban on August 3 were given to Abdullah Öcalan as reason for the prevention of the meeting. However, the lawyers were not informed about the decisions cited as reason for the ban.

 

The last phone call was on March 25

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, last met with 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 had a phone call with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this phone call was interrupted.