ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a meeting.

 

Lawyers of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Newroz Uysal, İbrahim Bilmez, Mazlum Dinç and Serbay Köklü, made a new application to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, requesting a meeting with their client.

 

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office imposed six-month meeting 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. While no positive or negative response was given to the meeting applications made afterwards, it was revealed that a new disciplinary punishment was imposed in January with the rejection of the application made by the lawyers in March.

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, last met their clients on May 2-22, June 12-18, and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

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Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to make phone call for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan had a phone conversation with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him, and Mehmet Öcalan stated that this conversation was interrupted.