ISTANBUL - Families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and detainees Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş held in Imralı Prison applied to the prosecutor’s office and the prison directorate for a meeting.

 

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s brother Mehmet Öcalan and his defensor Mazlum Dinç applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requesting a meeting. For other detainees in Imralı; Ömer Hayri Konar’s brother Ali Konar, Hamili Yıldırım’s brother Polat Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş’s sister Melihe Çetin also applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a meeting.

 

The families also applied to the Imralı F Type High Security Closed Penitentiary Institution for a meeting through the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

 

No any response to applications

 

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 meeting 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.

 

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.

 

Last phone call

 

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.