Lawyers of Imrali detainees submit new request to PPO

Today, the lawyers of the Al-Asr Law Office: Razia Ozturk, Ibrahim Bilmez, Imran Emekji, and Cengiz Yurkli submitted a new request to the Republican Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Turkish city of Bursa and the Imrali Prison Directorate to meet with their clients; Leader Abdullah Ocalan, Omar Hayri Konar, Hamili Yildirim, and Veysi Aktaş, who have been subjected to strict isolation by Turkey for more than 3 years.

Al-Asr Law Office’s lawyers submit two requests every week to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Turkish city of Bursa and the Imrali Prison Directorate. Their families also submit two requests every week, for a total of 16 requests every month.

Lawyers from the Al-Asr submitted a request to the Committee Against Torture (CPT) last February 25 to meet with their clients. Leader Abdullah Ocalan, Omar Hayri Konar, Hamili Yildirim, and Veysi Aktaş.

Worth to note that the last meeting with the leader was held by his lawyers, Rezan Sarıja and Nowruz Uysal, on August 7, 2019, while his last contact with the outside world was on March 25, 2021, during a phone call with his brother Muhammad Ocalan for 5 minutes, then the call was cut off.

According to the Office's report, which was revealed on January 17/:

* Only 5 meetings were held for the lawyers, from July 27, 2011 onwards, and they were during the period from May to August 2019, and the last meeting with him was on August 7, 2019.

* Since 2014, only 5 family meetings with leader.

* The last face-to-face meeting with his brother Muhammad Ocalan was on August 3, 2020.

*Since day one, only two phone calls have been made (April 27, 2020 and March 25, 2021)

* The last phone conversation was on March 25, 2021. It lasted five minutes and then was cut off, and no information was obtained from it.

The lawyers of the Al-Asr Human Rights Office made a statement about the lack of information about the leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is detained in the Imrali Model F prison and no information about him for 38 months.

Leader Abdullah Ocalan has been detained for more than 24 years in Imrali Island prison in the Sea of Marmara, following an international conspiracy carried out by international and regional forces, in 1999 in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and he was handed over to the Turkish occupation state on February 15 of the same year.

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