Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, Rezan Sarıca, Raziye Öztürk, Ibrahim Bilmez and Serbay Köklü, applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client. However, the application made on Tuesday was rejected on the grounds of the 6-month ban on visit imposed on Öcalan.

The Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office imposed a 6-month ban on lawyers’ visit on September 23 using as a pretext the "Road Map" prepared by Abdullah Öcalan in addition to his defense and sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2009.