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Al Arabiya
06-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Pro-Kurdish lawmakers visit Abdullah Ocalan as PKK to destroy arms
A delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party went to meet jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday as his Kurdish militants prepared to begin destroying their weapons, the party said. Lawmakers Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar traveled with lawyer Ozgur Faik Erol to Imrali prison island near Istanbul where Ocalan has been serving a life in solitary since 1999, a DEM statement said. The talks came ahead of a planned ceremony by PKK militants in Iraqi Kurdistan at which they said they would begin destroying a first tranche of weapons -- due on or around 10-12 July. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday the move would give momentum to peace efforts with the Kurds, telling reporters he would also meet the DEM delegation. That meeting is expected to happen next week. In February, Ocalan urged the PKK to end its armed struggle and disband, which the group formally did in May, drawing a line under a decades-long conflict that has claimed more than 40,000 lives. The disarmament process is expected to unfold over the coming months.
Shafaq News
16-02-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
İmralı Turkish delegation visits Erbil citadel
Shafaq News/ On Sunday, the Kurdish-Turkish İmralı delegation, led by Pervin Buldan, visited the historic Erbil Citadel. Shafaq News correspondent reported that the delegation toured the citadel, one of the region's most prominent historical landmarks, and explored the digital museum inside the citadel and took a break at one of the traditional heritage houses. Earlier, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader, MasoudBarzani, received the İmralı delegation at the Saladin resort. Additionally, Kurdistan Region President, Nechirvan Barzani, also announced a scheduled meeting with the delegation on Monday, during which they will deliver a message from Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has been imprisoned since 1999 at İmralı prison in Turkiye, where he is serving a life sentence. Notably, the İmralı delegation includes politicians and figures who have previously met with Öcalan. The meeting takes place against the backdrop of wider regional talks regarding the future of the PKK, a Kurdish militant group with a complex and disputed history in both Turkiye and northern Iraq.
Washington Post
16-02-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Turkish opposition party delegation meets with Kurdish leader in Iraq as part of PKK peace efforts
BAGHDAD — A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey. The delegation led by Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Buldan, two senior officials with the pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, in Turkey, met with Masoud Barzani , the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party — the dominant Kurdish party in Iraq — in Irbil Sunday.
