ISTANBUL - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers made an application to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their clients.

 

The lawyers of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, who were kept under isolation in İmralı High-Security F-Type Closed Prison, Mazlum Dinç, İbrahim Bilmez, Nevroz Uysal, and Serbay Köklü applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their clients.

 

Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office imposed a six-month lawyer visitation ban on September 23, 2020, on the grounds of "Road Map" prepared in addition to Abdullah Öcalan's defense sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2009. Although the interview ban ended on March 23, neither a positive nor negative response is given to the applications made by the lawyers.

Rezan Sarıca and Nevroz Uysal, lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan, were able to meet with their clients after eight years on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019.

 

The conversation was interrupted

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been kept under isolation conditions in İmralı High-Security F-Type Closed Prison for 22 years, first benefited from the right of the phone call on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone on March 25, when the public concerns about some posts on social media were growing while the isolation policy imposed on him was continuing, but Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.