Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers file new request to visit their client

Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for a visit with their client.

Llawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, Raziye Turgut, Rezan Sarıca, Serbay Köklü and Ibrahim Bilmezapplied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.

Lawyers held their last visits on 2 and 22 May, 12 and 18 June and 7 August 2019. These were the first visits allowed after 8 years of total isolation.

Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had issued a 6-month ban on lawyers' visits, citing the "Road Map" prepared in addition to the defense sent by Abdullah Öcalan on 23 September 2009 to the European Court of Human Rights.