Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is held  under absolute isolation in İmralı Island Prison and completely cut off from the outside world. While there is no response to requests for meetings, in some cases, months later, his lawyers are presented with a justification of disciplinary penalties.

From 27 July 2011 to date, only 5 lawyer visits were allowed between May and August 2019. The last of these five meetings was on 7 August 2019. Only 5 family visits have been granted since 2014. The last face-to-face meeting was with Öcalan's brother was on 3 March 2020. Öcalan has only been able to make two phone calls since the first day (on 27 April 2020 and 25 March 2021). The last phone call on 25 March 2021 was interrupted after a very short time and there has been no news from him since that day.

Öcalan and his fellow prisoners have been subject to a renewed 3-month ban on family visits.

Responding to the application of lawyers for family visits, Bursa Execution Judgeship stated that a new ‘disciplinary punishment’ was given to Abdullah Öcalan and fellow prisoners by the Disciplinary Board Presidency on 4 July.

While the reason for the ‘disciplinary punishment’ was not specified in the decision, lawyers' request for information and documents regarding the file were rejected. The lawyers will appeal to Bursa Heavy Penal Court against the ‘disciplinary punishment’.