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

 

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

 

Ban ended in March, no answer!

 

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 their clients on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

No news since March

 

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.