ISTANBUL - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s family, lawyers and defensor applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requesting a meeting.

 

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

 

Abdullah Öcalan's brother Mehmet Öcalan and his defensor Mazlum Dinç and other detainees in İmralı, Ömer Hayri Konar's brother Ali Konar, Hamili Yıldırım's brother Polat Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş's sister Melihe Çetin also applied for a meeting through their lawyers.

 

Disciplinary punishment

 

Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office 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. While no positive or negative response was given to the applications, it was revealed that a new disciplinary punishment was imposed in January after the rejection of the application made by the lawyers in March.

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, one 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

 

The PKK leader, who has been kept under heavy isolation conditions in İmralı for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, when public concerns grew as a result of some posts on social media, but Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.