MESOP FLASH : Ocalan set to hold 1th press conference on Imrali next week

6. 4.2014 – Hawar Abdulrazaq – BasNews, Turkey – Abdullah Ocalan has agreed to be interviewed in his prison cell next week. According to Turkish media the Kurdistan Workers’ Party jailed leader will receive six prominent Turkish journalists on İmralı Island.

The interview will be another step forward in the Kurdish-Turkish peace process, says Turkish media. The journalists, chosen by the Turkish Journalist syndicate, are Hussain Baymann (Wattan Newspaper), Yaldirai Ughur (Turkieya Newspaper), Nihal Bingesu Karaca (Habar Turk Newspaper), Oral Carisal (Radikal Newspaper), Nagihan Alci (Milliyet Newspaper) and Iykan Ohan Turkish freelance journalist and researcher. This week a delegation from People’s Democracy Party (HDP) and Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) will visit Ocalan to discuss the municipal elections held in March.