PodcastLawyers file application to meet jailed PKK leader Öcalan on İmralı Island
PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers filed an application to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to be able to meet their client. The lawyers have filed 79 applications since Aug. 7, 2019, but haven't received any responses.
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Lawyers of jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan have filed an application to meet their client in the prison on the İmralı Island.
Lawyers Newroz Uysal, Faik Özgür Erol, Cengiz Yürekli and Mazlum Dinç submitted their application to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to be able to meet Öcalan, who has been serving his prison sentence since 1999, on June 17.
After an eight-year ban on lawyer-client meeting, Öcalan was allowed to meet his lawyers on May 2, 2019 following hunger strikes and death fasts launched by hundreds of supporters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), with lawmaker Leyla Güven initiating the move to demand an end to Öcalan’s isolation, including access to lawyers.
No one should build their future plans over me, PKK leader Öcalan says on KRG tensionsAnother four meetings were held on May 22, June 12, June 18 and Aug. 7 of the same year, but his lawyers haven't been receiving any responses to their applications ever since.
They have filed a total of 79 applications so far.