The founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, estimated that the rapprochement of Turks and Kurds is a “historic responsibility” and declared that he was “determined” to participate in a peace process that started in Turkey, as the Turkish pro-Kurdish party reported today DEM after visiting the jailed Kurdish leader the previous day. “Strengthening Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood is not only a historical responsibility but also an imperative for all peoples,” said the Kurdish leader, who has been imprisoned since 1999 on an island off Istanbul, according to a party statement. A DEM (Peoples’ Democracy and Equality Party) delegation met yesterday, Saturday, with the head of the PKK during this visit, the first in ten years. The visit took place one day after the Turkish government gave the green light to DEM’s request to visit 75-year-old Ocalan. The decision came two months after the head of Turkey’s nationalist MHP party made a sudden “branch […]
Source: News Beast
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