ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) must be dissolved “without any conditions,” Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday, with the country’s main pro-Kurdish party set for an expected second meeting with the jailed PKK leader.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party said on Friday that its meetings with politicians from across the spectrum about Kurdish-Turkish peace talks were generally positive, despite some concerns, and they are looking forward to a second meeting with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader

In the past, Bahceli's party had also called for the reintroduction of the death penalty, primarily to execute the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. The paramilitary PKK is classified as a terrorist organization in the EU and the US and has been in armed conflict with the Turkish state since 1984.

A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict.

This diplomatic initiative comes after the delegation's latest meetings with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, Future Party chairman Ahmet Davutoğlu, and representatives from the AK Party and Saadet parliamentary groups.

The cautious process was initiated in October by Devlet Bahceli ... parties to explain their discussions. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey ...

The cautious process was initiated in October by Devlet Bahceli ... parties to explain their discussions. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey ...

"In future, we will take decisive steps to realize our vision for Turkey and an entire region without terror," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his New Year's Day speech. These words were a reference to the current reconciliation process between Turkey's government and Kurds,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should lay down arms and make its “political wing” act like a “genuine Turkish party,

Is new life being breathed into the long-stalled Kurdish peace process in Turkey