MESOP LATEST : Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to visit Ocalan

23.05.2014 – BasNews, Turkey – The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has revealed that some of its leaders have scheduled meetings with the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and other Turkish ministers.

It is also expected that Leyla Zana, the independent MP from Diyarbakir province, will visit Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK.  HDP member Pervin Buldan hinted at some of the forthcoming meetings between her party’s members and Turkish government officials.

It is anticipated that Leyla Zana, alongside Ertourl Kurikcu and Sebahat Tuncel, co-chairs of HDP, will visit Ocalan on Imrali Island. Buldan said that the HDP delegation has discussed with Turkish officials the legal steps that Ocalan agreed to in the last visit to his jail in April 2014. Buldan also said that her party expected the Turkish parliament to approve new laws to ease the peace process before the next presidential election. Despite obstacles, the peace process, which aims to solve Turkey’s ‘Kurdish question’, is continuing.