ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and Imralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client.

 

Lawyers of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Faik Özgür Erol, Raziye Öztürk, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the prison directorate for a meeting with their client.

 

The Office of the Chief Prosecutor imposed a 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 meeting were left inconclusive based on this decision, learned that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment last January. However, despite the expiration of this ban on March 23, no positive or negative response is given to the applications made by lawyers.