ANKARA - Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and prisoners Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş who have not been heard from for months will hold a series of talks in Ankara.

 

Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and prisoners Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş, who are being held under severe isolation conditions in İmralı High Security Type F Prison, will hold a series of talks in Ankara. Families will visit the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Parliamentary Group regarding the ban on visits. Families will hold a press conference with HDP Deputy Ömer Öcalan in the Parliament.

 

FAMILIES WILL VISIT ÖHD AND İHD

 

After visiting the parliament, the families will visit Human's Rights Association (İHD) at 14.00. Families will convey the unlawfulnesses in İmralı and their demands to the İHD officials. Families will then visit the Association for Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD). 

 

NEW BAN ON VISITATION

 

Asrın Law Office's lawyers applied to the Parliament, Ministry of Justice, prison administration and some non-governmental organizations last week for their clients, whom they could not hear from. The application made by the lawyers to the Bursa Execution Judge on November 22, with the request for an "urgent meeting", was rejected on the grounds of a 6-month lawyer and 3-month family visit ban. In its decision, the judgeship did not include the reason for the ban.