The Turkish President met today with a delegation of the pro -Kurdish Party of Democracy and Equality (DEM) in Turkey today (10.04.2025) Recep Tayyip Erdoganin order to discuss Attempt to promote a peace process to Kurdish Issue about the disarmament and dissolution of PKK.
After meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, DEM delegation, communicating with PKK, spoke of extremely constructive and promising atmosphere and stated that ‘Today we are more optimistic than yesterday ».
Members of the delegation consisting of Pervin Buldan and Shiri Surrey OderMPs of DEM, the same delegation that visited weeks ago and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in his prison on the island of Imrali.
They themselves stated after the meeting: ‘The importance of the ongoing process was confirmed and the next steps were mutually evaluated. We pointed out that a period without violence and conflictsin which will be reinforced by democratic and political spaceit is vital to our country, our citizens and our region. “
They also added: “Our delegation and our party will continue to work for its implementation”Invitation to peace and democratic society»(Ocalan’s) with even greater desire and attention in the following period. We inform the whole country that today we are more optimistic than yesterday».
Conversations are part of the process that began after the appeal it addressed Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament and self -dissolution of the Kurdistan Labor Party (PKK)which he founded in 1978.
OR Ocalan’s appeal came after her proposal, On October 22, 2024, of the government partner of President Erdogan and leader of the far -right nationalist party, Devlet Bachseli, for Ocalan’s release under strictly restrictive terms if he publicly renounced the National Assembly the armed action and invites PKK members to dismantle the organization.
THE Ocalan addressed the PKK disarmament and self -dissolution appeal on 27 February 2025 and PKK has declared a ceasefire from March 1, 2025However, reports say that there have been sporadic clashes of the Turkish army with members of the PKK in northern Iraq.