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

 

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

Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office imposed 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. While no positive or negative response was given to the meeting applications made afterwards, it was revealed that a new disciplinary punishment was imposed in January with the rejection of the application made by the lawyers in March.

 

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

 

No news since 25 March

 

The PKK leader, who has been kept under heavy isolation conditions in Imralı for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, when public concerns grew as a result of some posts on social media, but Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.