Relatives of Imrali detainees submit new request for visit

Today, Abdullah Ocalan’s brother, Muhammad Ocalan, through his lawyer Mazlum Ding, along with Omar Khairi Kunar’s brother Ali Kunar, Hamili Yildirim’s brother Polat Yildirim, and Veysi Aktas’ sister Meliha Aktas, filed a new request with the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Turkish city of Bursa and the Imrali Prison Directorate to visit the detainees.

Lawyers from the Al-Asr Human Rights Office submit two requests per week to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bursa and the Imrali Prison Directorate. The detainees’ relatives also submit two requests weekly, totaling 16 requests per month, yet no response has been received.

The last meeting between leader Ocalan and his lawyers, Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, was on August 7, 2019, while his last contact with the outside world was on March 25, 2021, during a five-minute phone call with his brother Muhammed Ocalan before the call was cut off.

On October 23, 2024, after four years of isolation, leader Abdullah Ocalan had a direct meeting with his nephew, Omar Ocalan. During the meeting, leader Ocalan conveyed a message: "The isolation continues, but if conditions allow, I have the theoretical and practical strength to shift this process from a framework of conflict and violence to a legal and political platform."

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