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Turkey has kept Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in isolation since 1999
HUNGER strikes are continuing in Turkish prisons as government assurances that the ban on Abdullah Ocalan meeting with his lawyers has been lifted were branded inadequate.
Hopes were raised last week after Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul announced to reporters in Ankara: “The ruling that prevents meetings has been lifted and the opportunity to meet with him has been allowed.”
However lawyers for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader warned that the situation remains the same as they have not been able to see Mr Ocalan since the initial one hour visit to Imrali island on May 2.
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