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TURKEY: Erodgan Ally Calls For DEM Party To Hold Talks w/PKK Ldr

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Following his shock comments from October suggesting the potential that Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), be granted parole if he renounced violence and wound up the group, far-right Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli earlier today suggested that the Kurdish-interest Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) should hold direct talks with Ocalan. Since being captured a quarter of a century ago, Ocalan has been held in a prison on Imrali Island, south of Istanbul, in almost total solitude. 

  • Subsequently, the DEM party co-chairs have made official requests to hold face-to-face talks with Ocalan. It remains to be seen whether such a request will be granted given that under a week ago, a court extended the ban on meetings between Ocalan and his lawyers for a further six months.
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Bahceli's original proposal an "historic window of opportunity", but has not spoken on the issue in more detail.
  • The prospect of a peace deal between the PKK and the Turkish state remains slim. Indeed, the PKK claimed responsibility for an October attack on a state-run defence company that killed five people.
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Following his shock comments from October suggesting the potential that Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), be granted parole if he renounced violence and wound up the group, far-right Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli earlier today suggested that the Kurdish-interest Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) should hold direct talks with Ocalan. Since being captured a quarter of a century ago, Ocalan has been held in a prison on Imrali Island, south of Istanbul, in almost total solitude. 

  • Subsequently, the DEM party co-chairs have made official requests to hold face-to-face talks with Ocalan. It remains to be seen whether such a request will be granted given that under a week ago, a court extended the ban on meetings between Ocalan and his lawyers for a further six months.
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Bahceli's original proposal an "historic window of opportunity", but has not spoken on the issue in more detail.
  • The prospect of a peace deal between the PKK and the Turkish state remains slim. Indeed, the PKK claimed responsibility for an October attack on a state-run defence company that killed five people.