A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) visited jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Friday, amid growing hopes of giving the ongoing peace talks between Ankara and the group a formal legal framework. Ankara-PKK peace mediators meet Ocalan in jail

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), now operating under the name Kurdistan Freedom Movement, announced on Monday that it has relocated its fighters from a mountainous area along the Kurdistan Region–Turkey border to deeper zones within the Region. The group said the move aims to prevent clashes with the Turkish military and to safeguard the developing peace process with Ankara.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Senior figures in Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party say the release of jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas may occur within days, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a final decision ordering his immediate release.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A senior official from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) says improving the conditions of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is essential for advancing the new peace initiative between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Turkey’s foreign minister said on Friday that negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are advancing in a constructive manner, offering one of the most optimistic assessments to date regarding the renewed peace initiative.