NEWS CENTER - The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who was held under aggravated isolation conditions, once again applied for a meeting with their client.

 

The lawyers of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Raziye Öztürk, Faik Özgür Erol, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli made a new application to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, requesting a meeting with their client.

 

Defense became justification to 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. 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.

 

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

 

The last meeting was on March 25

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı 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, after the public's concerns about some of the posts on social media grew. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.