Lawyers for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have been once again denied permission to visit their client. Despite the requests not just from the lawyers but also from the family of the Kurdish leader, authorities have rejected the application made by lawyers Rezan Sarıca, Cengiz Yürekli, Mazlum Dinç and Hüseyin Boğatekin to visit their client in İmralı.

Öcalan has not been able to see his lawyers since 27 July 2011.