A delegation of lawmakers from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) issued an optimistic statement on the progress of the

Istanbul Member of Parliament for the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) and member of the İmralı delegation Sırrı Süreyya Önder has made a statement on the second meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. Earlier today, Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç had said that there had not been an application yet for a second İmralı meeting.

Following the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the delegation will meet with representatives of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi).

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.

The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations between Ankara and the PKK, which Ankara has been trying to suppress for 40 years,

A delegation from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is scheduled to visit Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, for the second time next week.

In a pivotal moment for the new initiative to convince the PKK terrorist group to lay down arms, the PKK-linked Peoples' Equality and Democracy