A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.

Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish DEM Party to hold face-to-face talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the party said on Friday, setting up the first such visit in nearly a decade.

The DEM party's visit to Ocalan, in solitary confinement in an island prison since 1999, was their first in nine years.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party will visit the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) within two days, state media reported on Friday, citing the justice minister.

A delegation from Turkiye’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday (December 28, 2024) visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, party officials said. The visit would be the party's first in almost 10 years.