Family members of Abdullah Öcalan, Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysi Aktaş who are imprisoned on the island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara have appealed through their lawyers to Bursa Public Prosecutor’s Office yesterday to be granted a meeting with their relatives. Attorney Mazlum Dinç, who is also Öcalan's tutelar, also applied to use his visitation right together with the families.

The appeals have been rejected on the grounds of the “restrictions imposed on convicts” by “Law no. 5275 on the Execution of Criminal and Security Measures”.

Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysi Aktaş have been on Imrali since 15 March 2015, while Hamili Yıldırım was transferred to the island jail four months later. Since then, the fellow prisoners of the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan were granted a visit by their families only once. After years of contact ban, the families of Imrali prisoners were first allowed to meet their relatives on 5 June. Breaking isolation conditions on Imrali was the result of months of hunger strikes involving thousands of activists.