{"id":11002,"date":"2026-02-12T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/11002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:19:12","slug":"pro-kurdish-party-says-they-will-keep-peace-initiative-moving-after-meeting-with-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/11002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Kurdish party says they will keep peace initiative moving after meeting with Erdo\u011fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Members of Turkey\u2019s main pro-Kurdish party said after meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan on Wednesday that the two sides reaffirmed a shared will to keep a new peace initiative moving and urged Turkey\u2019s parliament, ministries and public institutions to speed up \u201cconcrete\u201d steps tied to the peace efforts, Turkish Minute<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan met with the pro-Kurdish Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) figures who are authorized to visit Abdullah \u00d6calan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK). \u00d6calan has been held since 1999 in a prison on \u0130mral\u0131 Island in the Sea of Marmara.<\/p>\n

Turkey and its Western allies designate the PKK as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

The current peace initiative began after \u00d6calan issued a call on February 27, 2025, urging the PKK to lay down its arms and disband, a message delivered publicly by DEM Party politicians after visiting him on the island.<\/p>\n

The DEM Party delegation, lawmaker Pervin Buldan and former lawmaker Mithat Sancar, said they discussed regional developments and how they could affect what the government calls the \u201cTerrorism-free Turkey\u201d initiative, while the DEM Party describes it as a \u201cdemocratic society process,\u201d a label meant to emphasize legal and political reforms along with an end to violence.<\/p>\n

The meeting came as the Turkish Parliament\u2019s National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission moved toward the final stage of a report expected to outline next steps. Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmu\u015f said a draft text prepared by a five-member working group representing parties on the commission was circulated to those representatives for review and that the commission aimed to complete its work in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The report is expected to avoid direct language about the \u201cright to hope,\u201d a term used in European human rights law debates over whether people serving aggravated life sentences must have a realistic possibility of release after a long period of time, but instead refers more broadly to European Court of Human Rights case law and universal legal principles.<\/p>\n

The DEM Party has long insisted on legal steps incorporating the right to hope into Turkish law, to pave the way for the release of PKK leader \u00d6calan, who has served 27 years of a life sentence.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan has portrayed the talks as a new phase in efforts to end the conflict between the PKK and the state, which has lasted for decades and has killed tens of thousands of people, while critics and rights groups have questioned whether Ankara will pair any steps to disarm with changes on rights, legal safeguards and political space for Kurdish politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Turkey\u2019s main pro-Kurdish party said after meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan on Wednesday that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[8655,5953,5954,8656,5956,2911,8657,314,8658,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-11002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-abdullah-ocalan","9":"tag-kurdish-issue","10":"tag-kurdistan-workers-party-pkk","11":"tag-mithat-sancar","12":"tag-peace-initiative","13":"tag-peoples-equality-and-democracy-party-dem-party","14":"tag-pervin-buldan","15":"tag-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan","16":"tag-right-to-hope","17":"tag-stockholm","18":"tag-sweden","19":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}