Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold face-to-face talks with imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for a second time, possibly as early as next week, two DEM lawmakers said on Wednesday.
Protest in support of Abdullah Öcalan © Mena Today
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold face-to-face talks with imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for a second time, possibly as early as next week, two DEM lawmakers said on Wednesday.
A second visit to Ocalan's island prison is being planned and could happen as early as Jan. 15, Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit and Serhat Eren said.
In December, Turkey allowed a two-person DEM delegation to make the first such visit to Ocalan in nearly a decade. Ocalan has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to call for militants to lay down arms.
Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever
Syria this week carried out its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT international payment system since the outbreak of the country’s 14-year civil war, central bank governor Abdelkader Husriyeh said on Thursday, a milestone in Syria’s push to reintegrate into the global financial system.
In a dramatic and unmistakable shift, Israeli leadership has drawn a new red line — not around nuclear sites or proxy militias, but around the very heart of the Iranian regime.
Countries around the world are taking measures to evacuate their citizens from Israel and Iran as the two nations enter the seventh day of their air war and airspace in the region remains closed.
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