Mehmet Öcalan, the brother of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and his guardian, Mazlum Dinç, applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to request a visit. Abdullah Öcalan is kept under severe isolation conditions in Imralı F Type High Security Prison and has not been heard from for 39 months.

Ali Konar, brother of Ömer Hayri Konar, Polat Yıldırım, brother of Hamili Yıldırım, and Melihe Çetin, sister of Veysi Aktaş, also applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their relativeves.

The right to meet with the families of Abdullah Öcalan and the other three people held in Imralı is being denied by the authorities, citing "disciplinary penalties". The reasons and file numbers of these disciplinary penalties are not shared with their lawyers despite all applications and objections.

According to Asrın Law Office, "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."