Sırrı Süreyya Önder

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) will resume its talks with political parties, including the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), on Jan. 6 as part of ongoing efforts to pressure the PKK into ending its armed struggle against Türkiye.

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has initiated a series of high-level talks in parliament following a rare meeting with Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader serving life on a prison island off Istanbul.

The visit was the party's first in almost a decade. The pro-Kurdish DEM Party's predecessor, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), last met Öcalan in April 2015.

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has expressed renewed hope for resolving the Kurdish issue following a rare meeting with Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader serving life on a prison island off Istanbul.

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) visited Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader serving life on a prison island off Istanbul.

The visit was the party's first in almost a decade. DEM Party's predecessor, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), last met Öcalan in April 2015.

Türkiye's Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç announced Friday that the pro-PKK Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has been granted permission to visit Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned founder of the PKK terrorist group.

A delegation from DEM party is due on Saturday to visit Öcalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.

Hasan Bitmez, a deputy from the Felicity Party (SP), has passed away after collapsing during his speech in the Turkish parliament.

The 22-minute speech on Dec. 12's session, which concluded with the phrase "I greet you all with respect," took a tragic turn when Bitmez collapsed, hitting his head on a marble step behind the lectern.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and İYİ (Good) Party have gotten into a debate over "alliances" made in the 2019 local elections, as both parties either directly or indirectly endorsed the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) candidates. 

Former lawmaker of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Sırrı Süreyya Önder on Dec. 6 handed himself in to authorities in the northwestern province of Kocaeli after a court on Dec. 4 upheld his prison sentence on "terror" charges.

A Turkish court on Dec. 4 upheld the prison sentences of opposition Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and its former lawmaker Sırrı Süreyya Önder.

Former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş and former HDP lawmaker Sırrı Süreyya Önder have been convicted on charges of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization."