Overview

• DEM Party lawmakers Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar pressed President Erdoğan on Monday for political concessions linked to the PKK’s formal dissolution
• The delegation visited imprisoned PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan on Imrali on Sunday to secure his backing for ongoing negotiations
• On May 12 the PKK officially ended its armed struggle and announced the group’s dissolution after more than four decades of conflict
• PKK fighters will ceremonially destroy an initial batch of weapons between July 10 and 12 in Iraqi Kurdistan as part of a multi-month disarmament process
• Turkey’s government has voiced support for the disarmament but has not yet enacted amnesty for militants or suspended military operations in Kurdish areas