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Turkey Allows Kurdish MPs to Visit Jailed Leader Ocalan
[An Nahar] The Turkish government has given permission for a group of Kurdish politicians to visit tossed in the calaboose
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Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan as part of renewed peace talks, their party said Thursday.

The justice ministry approved a list of deputies from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) to visit Ocalan in his island prison on Saturday, it added.

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Ocalan, who was captured in Nairobi in 1999, is serving a life sentence in Imrali prison in the Marmara Sea south of Istanbul.

The visit will follow a meeting between two Kurdish politicians and Ocalan on January 3.

Local media said Ocalan might brief his visitors on plans for a ceasefire and the disarmament of the PKK, which is branded a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies.

Posted by: Fred 2013-02-22
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