Turkiye allows two pro-Kurdish MPs to visit imprisoned PKK leader Ocalan, in apparent efforts to reach peace deal

Turkiye’s government has allowed two pro-Kurdish MPs to visit imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, as part of apparent efforts towards a ceasefire with the designated terror group. Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Buldan, two MPs from Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, today made a trip to Imralı island, where PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan has been imprisoned off the Turkish coast since 1999. In a statement released by the DEM Party today, following the meeting, it refrained from providing details of the talks with Ocalan or of any other matters surrounding it, but simply stated that the “delegation will share the information and evaluations about the content of this meeting with the press and the […]