The DEM Party has labeled the meetings as crucial steps toward enhancing dialogue and reconciliation. The delegation plans to hold a third meeting with Ocalan before submitting his roadmap to Turkish political leaders.
The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) İmralı Delegation have made a written application to the Ministry of Justice for a second meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
ISTANBUL — A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties ... have labelled politically motivated — took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever. On Monday, he declared 2025 to be “the year of the family” and unveiled measures aimed at raising the national birth rate.
A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders
Is new life being breathed into the long-stalled Kurdish peace process in Turkey
Although the new Syrian authorities have shown openness toward them, the Kurdish forces, which lead the autonomous entity in the country's northeast, which Turkey has vowed to annihilate, have much to fear from a new deal,
The country is going through a new stage in the fight against the PKK with the 'terror-free Türkiye initiative' proposed by a government
ISTANBUL (AP) — A delegation from one of Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish political ... took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers ...
Clashes near the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River have brought the dam to the verge of collapse . This has caused shortages of electricity and water in some areas of Rojava. The damage is also threatening agricultural production, which is key for food security in the region.
Speaking to the media, Bayındır underscored that the dialogue in Erbil was critical for protecting Western Kurdistan and safeguarding the collective rights of the Kurdish people.