ISTANBUL - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to interview with their clients.

 

Rezan Sarıca, Faik Özgür Erol, Cengiz Yürekli, and Raziye Öztürk, the lawyers of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, who were kept under isolation in İmralı F Type High-Security Closed Prison, applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to interview with their clients.

 

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

 

The conversation was interrupted

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been kept under isolation conditions in İmralı for 22 years, first benefited from the right of phone call on April 27, 2020. The PKK leader talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone on March 25, as public concerns grew after some allegations shared on social media, but the conversation was interrupted.

 

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