Turkey approves pro-Kurdish party's visit to imprisoned PKK founder | World News

Turkey has approved a request from the pro-Kurdish DEM party to visit PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement, the justice minister and a party spokesman said on Friday.

Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc confirmed the decision in a speech to the TRGT news channel.

“We responded positively to the DEM's request for a meeting. Depending on the weather conditions, they will go to Imrali tomorrow or Sunday,” he said, referring to the prison island where Öcalan has been detained for 25 years.

A DEM party spokesperson said earlier that they had received “a call, there will be a visit tomorrow or Sunday as long as the weather is not bad”.

Öcalan founded the PKK, which has waged an insurgency against Turkey for decades and is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies.

He has been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole since 1999 on the island of Imrali, off the coast of Istanbul, which has been hit by unstable weather conditions in recent days.

Tunc said the delegation would consist of two DEM lawmakers, Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Puldan.

The move comes two months after the leader of Turkey's far-right MHP party extended a shock olive branch to Öcalan, calling on him in parliament to renounce terrorism and disband his group, a move supported by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A day later, Öcalan was allowed to visit his family for the first time since March 2020, prompting DEM to submit its own request to the Justice Ministry to visit the 75-year-old former guerrilla.

At the time, observers said the government was seeking to reach out to the Kurds to ease pressure along its border with Syria.

On December 8, neighboring Syrian rebels toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad, giving Turkey a new opportunity to confront the threat it claims to face from Kurdish militants along the border in northern Syria.

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