Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, said he is “ready” to support the peace process between Kurds and Turkiye, considering that strengthening Kurdish-Turkish brotherhood is a “historical responsibility”, two lawmakers from a pro-PKK party said yesterday. MPs Pervin Buldan and Sirri Sureyya Onder of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), visited Ocalan in prison on Saturday and conveyed his statements in which he stressed that it is a “time of brotherhood and peace for Turkiye and the region.” On Thursday, the Turkish Ministry of Justice approved a request submitted by DEM to visit Ocalan for the first time since his imprisonment in 1999. The visit came two months after Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet […]
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