ISTANBUL - Lawyers of Asrın Law Office applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client, PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, whom they had not heard from for more than 2 years.

 

Asrın Law Office lawyers İbrahim Bilmez, Raziye Öztürk, Emran Emekçi and Cengiz Yürekli applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is held under heavy isolation conditions in İmralı Type F High Security Prison. Lawyers applied to both the prosecutor's office and the prison directorate for Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş, who are held in İmralı.

 

BAN TO MEETINGS

 

No positive or negative response is given to the applications made by the lawyers twice a week. Abdullah Öcalan, who made the first use of his right to make phone calls on April 27, 2020, was made to talk to his brother Mehmet Öcalan on the phone again on March 25, 2021, following the growing public concerns after some allegations in the social media. This phone call was also interrupted. Since then, there has been no news from Abdullah Öcalan.

 

On the other hand, 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 8 years. Lawyers have not been allowed to meet with their clients since then.