Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as part of a political effort to end a decades-long conflict.
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.
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.
A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurd DEM political party met Saturday with its former president, jailed since 2016, as it pursues an effort to end decades of conflict between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdish PKK rebel group.
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.
A delegation from Turkiye's pro-Kurdish political party met jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas in a step towards ending a 40-year conflict. The meeting, following a rendezvous with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan,
Turkish President Erdogan has stated that if the PKK disregards a potential call from their jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms, Turkey will achieve a terror-free state through alternative strategies.
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political ... the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. While the PKK has led an armed insurgency against the Turkish ...
Fierce fighting between Kurdish SDF and Turkey-backed SNA forces continued to range in and around the Tishrin dam, amid the 'Operation Dawn of Freedom'.
Turkey's top diplomat on Friday ruled out a role for French troops in Syria, saying it was only negotiating with the United States which has sought to head off Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters there.
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.
Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail."The door to negotiation with the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) is currently open,