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Jul 11, 2025
Istanbul [Turkey], July 11: The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is insisting on the release of Abdullah Öcalan, its leader jailed since 1999, before a peace process with Turkey can make progress, the Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF) reported on Thursday. The PKK also said through the Amsterdam-based ANF that both sides had to drive the process forward. It criticized inaction on the part of the Turkish government. Öcalan is being held on a prison island in the Sea of Marmara south of Istanbul.
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