US EditionTurkish delegation holds rare peace talks with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
The meeting focused on disarmament, integrating Kurdish forces into a Syrian army, and advancing peace after a stalled March 10 agreement, Turkish officials said.
- A Turkish parliamentary delegation visited Imrali to hold talks with Abdullah Ocalan earlier this year, the imprisoned PKK leader, on the prison island near Istanbul.
- Following a May announcement, the Kurdistan Workers' Party staged a symbolic disarmament ceremony in northern Iraq and announced last month it withdrew remaining forces from Turkey to Iraq.
- The Turkish parliamentary delegation said the talks also addressed implementing the March 10 agreement, which aims to integrate Kurdish forces into a Syrian army, amid Turkish security concerns over SDF links to the PKK.
- The delegation said the talks concluded with positive outcomes and `detailed declarations` from Ocalan, aiming to strengthen social cohesion and brotherhood with regional implications for Iraq and Syria.
- Since 1984 the PKK has waged insurgency, with previous peace efforts collapsing most recently in 2015, illustrating ongoing negotiation fragility.
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Turkish parliamentary delegation meets with imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Öcalan
This process, conducted through secret diplomacy, is an attempt by the Turkish and Kurdish bourgeois nationalist leaderships to reach an agreement in line with US imperialism's efforts to reorganize the Middle East.
Turkish MPs have visited Öcalan, the founder of the banned Kurdish workers' party PKK, imprisoned for high treason since 1999, for the first time in prison.
Today's development comes as a continuation of the Kurdish resolution process
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Turkish delegation holds rare peace talks with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
A Turkish parliamentary delegation has held talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as part of a peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict.
Turkish Delegation Meets with PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan
A Turkish parliamentary commission delegation visited Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), to discuss the group's disarmament and dissolution. The delegation also inquired about the agreement with the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Turkish parliamentary delegation meets jailed PKK leader Ocalan
ANKARA (Reuters) -A delegation from a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group paid their first visit to its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan on Monday, the parliamentary speaker's office said.In their meeting in a prison on the island of Imrali off Istanbul, the delegation asked Ocalan about the PKK's dissolution and disarmament as well as the implementation of an agr…
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