Two pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers met Wednesday with the jailed founder of the PKK, part of an effort to revive dialogue between Ankara and the banned militant organisation.

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) traveled to İmralı Island today for their ...

The DEM Party has labeled the meetings as crucial steps toward enhancing dialogue and reconciliation. The delegation plans to ...

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) İmralı Delegation have made a written application to the Ministry of Justice ...

In the meantime, the political factions in the Iraqi Kurdistan have welcomed the initiative of Devlet Bahceli, the head of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party to release Abdullah ... prison. The PPK ...

25 years ago: Death sentence postponed for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan On January ... leaders of the independence struggle confined to prison on sentences of up to three years.

The aim was to brief them on a rare weekend meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) who is serving life without parole on Imrali prison island near ...

Abdullah Öcalan, to speak before the Mejlis, the parliament, but only if he agreed to disband the PKK. Without taking into account that Öcalan himself, who has been in Imrali prison for 25 years with ...

A delegation from the Equality and Peoples’ Democracy Party, including MPs Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Buldan, met with leader Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali Prison on December 28, 2024. Meanwhile, the ...

The aim was to brief them on a rare weekend meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) who is serving life without parole on Imrali prison island near ...

He escaped the gallows when Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2004 and is spending his remaining years in an isolation cell on the Imrali prison island south of Istanbul. Saturday's rare ...