Lawyers of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan once again applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the Imralı Penal Institution Directorate, requesting to visit their client.

The applications were made by Raziye Öztürk, Rezan Sarıca, Faik Özgür Erol and Mazlum Dinç, lawyers of Asrın Law Office.

The lawyers also applied to meet with their other clients Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş in Imralı.

There has been no news from Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan since 25 March 2021.

The Istanbul-based Asrın Law Office, released a statement back in February harshly criticizing the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), which did not visit Imrali during its latest visit to Turkey between 13 and 22 February.

The lawyers said that "the approach of the CPT is neither compatible with the prohibition of torture nor with its duty to prevent conditions of torture. While illegal disciplinary penalties and unlawful bans on lawyers imposed by execution judgeships are systematically imposed one after another, while the conditions of execution and 'judicial processes' are closed to the lawyer's review and supervision, while the right to defense has been completely suspended in İmralı, while all ties with the outside world, especially lawyer and family visits, have been severed for almost three years, while lawyers have no information about the conditions of detention and their health status, it is an unacceptable approach to raise the issue only in meetings with the authorities."