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

 

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

 

The lawyers applied for an ‘’immediate meeting’’ to the Bursa Judgeship of Execution on November 22, as no positive or negative response was given to their twice weekly applications to meet with their client Abdullah Öcalan. Responding to the application, the Judgeship rejected the application, stating that there are two new meeting bans about the PKK leader. The Judgeship cited a six-month lawyer visitation ban and a three-month family visitation ban for Abdullah Öcalan as reasons for the prevention of the meeting. However, the lawyers were not informed about the decisions cited as reasons for the ban.

 

No news for 8 months

 

Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, Newroz Uysal and Rezan Sarıca, were able to meet 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 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 phone call was interrupted.