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

 

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

 

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. After this ban, applications made by lawyers were also inconclusive and it was revealed that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment in January 2021.

Although the ban ended on March 23, neither a positive nor a negative response to the applications made by the lawyers are received.

 

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

 

March 25 meeting

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under heavy isolation conditions in Imralı High Security F Type Closed Prison for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan had a phone conversation with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on March 25, as concerns grew in public due to some of the posts on the virtual media. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.