The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) MPs applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission (İHİK) on 7 December 2023 demanding the lifting of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and granting of family and lawyer visits.

In the application, it was pointed out that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysi Aktaş, who are held in İmralı Islan Prison, are not allowed to communicate by phone, fax and letter; family, guardian and lawyer visits are prevented; and their ties with the outside world are completely cut off.

It was also stated that from 27 July 2011 until today, only 5 lawyer meetings took place between May and August 2019, with the last meeting date being 7 August 2019. On the other hand, only 5 family meetings have been allowed since 2014. The last face-to-face family meeting was on 3 March 2020, and only two telephone talks were granted in 24 years (27 April 2020 and 25 March 2021).

It was also pointed out that no news was received from Abdullah Öcalan after his interrupted phone call with his brother on 25 March 2021. In addition, 238 lawyer and 79 family-guardian visit applications were submitted between the last meeting and the end of 2022, but none of them were responded to.

In their application, the MPs finally demanded a visit to İmralı and a meeting with a family member, lawyer or political delegation.

According to the Mesopotamia Agency, the Ministry of Justice General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses responded to the application. The Directorate claimed that the prisoners in İmralı "equally benefit from all rights granted by law and regulations". 

Referring to the ECtHR judgements, the Directorate stated that "in order to talk about the concept of isolation, the prisoner's communication with his lawyer, relatives or other prisoners must be completely eliminated". The directorate argued that there was no isolation in İmralı and claimed that "within the scope of Circular No. 4511 dated 22 January 2007, all convicts in the penal execution institution are allowed to benefit from common activities, that their meetings with their lawyers and relatives are not prevented, and that they participate in sports and other common area activities with other prisoners in accordance with the legislation". It also claimed that the findings in the application were "baseless". 

The Directorate noted that in 2023, the Administrative and Observation Board of the Institution issued a 6-month telephone restriction decision for Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in relation to face-to-face visits and telephone calls with his guardian and family members. The Directorate claimed that these decisions were not appealed against.

The lawyers of Asrin Law Office have announced many times so far that they had not been notified of the decisions mentioned in the directorate's response.

The Directorate also claimed that Abdullah Öcalan "benefited from letters, faxes and similar communication methods in 2023".

The Directorate pointed out that prisoners have the right to appeal against the practices of the institution and stated that "the administration has no possibility to interfere with the decisions of judges with judicial independence by any means of suggestion or recommendation".