ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their clients.

 

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

 

New disciplinary punishment

 

Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office imposed a six-month meet 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 (ECHR) in 2009. Although the ban ended on March 23, no response was given to the applications made by the lawyers until March. However, the lawyers of the PKK leader, in a statement they made in the past weeks, stated that a new disciplinary punishment was given to their clients as of January, and that they only learned about it in March.

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

 

The phone call was interrupted

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under heavy isolation conditions in the İmralı High-Security F-Type Closed Prison for 22 years, was given the right to call on the phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan had a phone call with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, after allegations regarding his health and safety conditions. However, Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.