NEWS CENTER - Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş held in İmralı Prison applied to the prosecutor's office and the prison directorate for a visit. 

 

Mehmet Öcalan, brother of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and his legal guardian Mazlum Dinç, and other detainees in İmralı, Ömer Hayri Konar's brother Ali Konar, Hamili Yıldırım's brother Polat Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş's sister Melihe Çetin applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday, requesting a visit due to the Ramadan Holiday.

 

The families also applied to the Imrali F Type High Security Closed Penal Institution Directorate for a meeting through the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office. 

 

TWO NEW DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENTS

 

The lawyers applied for an "urgent meeting" with the Bursa Penal Execution Judge on November 22, as no positive or negative response was given to their twice-weekly applications to meet with their client Öcalan. Responding to the application, the judgeship rejected the application, stating that there were two new disciplinary punishements on Öcalan banning the family visits. As an obstacle to the meeting, the judgeship cited the decision that a 6-month ban on meeting Öcalan on October 12 and a 3-month ban on family visits on 18 August was imposed. However, the lawyers were not informed about the decisions cited as reasons for the ban. 

 

PHONE CALL WAS INTERRUPTED

 

Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in İmralı High Security F-Type Closed Prison for 22 years, made a phone call yesterday with his brother Mehmet Öcalan after the last phone call on April 27, 2020. However, Mehmet Öcalan had announced that the phonecall was interrupted.

 

LAST LAWYER VISIT WAS IN 2019

 

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Öcalan's lawyers, last met their clients on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after 8 years. Öcalan was given the right to a phone call for the first time on April 27, 2020.