The pro-Kurdish DEM Party is set to have a second meeting with imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. The talks are set to occur as early as January 15, following a previous encounter in December.
ISTANBUL — A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties met a leading figure of the Kurdish ...
Ocalan has been serving a life term in prison on the Imrali island off Istanbul since 1999, after being convicted of treason. The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous state in Turkey’s ...
Two DEM sources told Reuters the party is now set to visit Ocalan again as soon as Jan. 15 in his prison on northwest Turkey's Imrali island, where the 75-year-old has been held since 1999.