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

 

The lawyers of 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. 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 (ECtHR) in 2009. Lawyers, whose applications for interviews 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. Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers, Rezan Sarıca and Nevroz Uysal, were able to meet 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 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 made to speak with his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.