Istanbul approves visit to jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan as it sees opportunity for reconciliation
PUBLISHED : 28 Dec 2024 at 18: 45
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A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul. (Photo: AFP)
ISTANBUL – A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.
“The delegation left in the morning,” the source told AFP, without elaborating how they would travel to the island for security reasons.
The visit would be the party’s first in almost 10 years.
DEM’s predecessor, the HDP party, last met Ocalan in April 2015.
On Friday, the government approved DEM’s request to visit Ocal
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