ISTANBUL - The family and defensor of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is held in Imralı Prison, applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and Prison Directorate with request for a meeting.

 

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s brother Mehmet Öcalan and his defensor Mazlum Dinç applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and Prison Directorate on Monday, requesting a meeting. The families of Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş, who are held in Imralı, applied to both places with similar demands.

 

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 applications to meet with their client Abdullah Öcalan. Responding to the application, the Judgeship rejected the application, stating that there were two new meeting bans about Abdullah Öcalan. The Judgeship noted that the six-month visitation ban on October 12, and the three-month family visitation ban on August 18 were given about Abdullah Öcalan. However, the lawyers were not informed about the decisions cited as grounds for the ban.

 

The last phone call was on March 25

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, last met 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.