Families applies to go to İmralı

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  • 11:14 18 April 2025
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ISTANBUL - Abdullah Öcalan's family and his guardian Mazlum Dinç applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate requesting a meeting.

The ban on family and lawyer visits to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş in İmralı F-Type High Security Prison continues. Abdullah Öcalan's brother Mehmet Öcalan and his guardian Mazlum Dinç applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate requesting a meeting. Emine Konar, the sister of Ömer Hayri Konar, Polat Yıldırım, the brother of Hamili Yıldırım, and Melihe Çetin, the sister of Veysi Aktaş, also applied to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Directorate of İmralı Prison for a meeting.
 
Abdullah Öcalan and 3 other prisoners in İmralı are prevented from meeting with their families due to "disciplinary penalties". Between 2021-2024, Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners were given disciplinary penalties at least 8 times for 3 months each, preventing them from meeting their families. The reasons and file numbers of the disciplinary penalties were not shared with their lawyers despite all applications. The lawyers who applied to Bursa Execution Judgeship in October were informed that a new 3-month "disciplinary penalty" was given to Abdullah Öcalan on 16 October 2024. No information on the reason for the "penalty" in question was shared.
 
MEETING AFTER 4 YEARS
 
The last meeting of Abdullah Öcalan with his family was held on 3 March 2020, and the last phone call was made on 25 March 2021. After 4 years, Abdullah Öcalan had a meeting with his nephew Ömer Öcalan on 23 October 2024 and underlined that the isolation still continues.
 
After this meeting, a second family meeting was held on 31 March 2025 on the occasion of Ramadan Feast. Abdullah Öcalan met with his brother Mehmet Öcalan and nephew Ömer Öcalan. At the same time, Ömer Hayri Konar met with his brother Ali Konar, Hamili Yıldırım met with his brother Polat Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş met with his sister Sabiha Aslan.

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