Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party to meet jailed PKK leader Ocalan 

ANKARA — Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said Tuesday it will hold a new meeting with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, a central figure in peace talks aimed at ending the four-decade insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

On Thursday, DEM lawmakers Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar, along with Ocalan’s lawyer Faik Ozgur Erol, will go to Imrali Island off the coast of Istanbul, where Ocalan has been serving a life sentence without parole since 1999.

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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