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

 

Rezan Sarıca, Raziye Öztürk, Faik Özgür Erol and Cengiz Yürekli, lawyers of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, who was held under severe isolation conditions in İmralı 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.

 

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.

 

Two phone calls in 22 years

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under heavy isolation conditions in İmralı 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 call 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.