ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, requesting a meeting with their client.

 

Lawyers of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Newroz Uysal, İbrahim Bilmez, Mazlum Dinç and Serbay Köklü applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with a request to meet with their clients.

 

Disciplinary punishment

 

The Office of the Chief Prosecutor 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. Lawyers, whose applications for meetings were left inconclusive based on this decision, learned that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment last January.

 

Although the ban expired on March 23, no positive or negative response was given to the applications made by the lawyers. 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.

 

The last conversation was on March 25

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan was once again made to speak to his brother Mehmet Öcalan over the phone on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.