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Lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party were to meet Turkey's president on Monday, a day after holding talks with jailed PKK ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) described its Sunday meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ ...
A DEM Party delegation led by MP Pervin Buldan has visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan at İmralı Prison ahead of a ...
A delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party went to meet jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday as his Kurdish militants prepared to begin destroying their weapons, the party said.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that peace efforts with Kurds would gain momentum after PKK militants begin ...
A senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party says elements within the Turkish government are trying to sabotage a historic ...
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision ...
The PKK also appealed for Ocalan to be released from Imrali prison, located in the Marmara Sea, to "personally direct and execute" a party congress that would lead to the militants laying down ...
Öcalan, who has been imprisoned by the regime on Imrali Island since 1999, ... should not be resolved in an isolated Turkish prison in accordance with the Turkish playbook.
ISTANBUL — The Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire Saturday, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm.
For years, he was the sole inmate at Imrali prison – an Alcatraz-like island south of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara. Turkey began a peace process with the PKK in 2013, ...