Turkey's Kurdish leaders meet jailed politician; 2 sides inch toward peace

FILE - A cardboard cut-out of Selahattin Demirtas is pictured at an election kiosk in Istanbul, June 20, 2018. On Saturday, three senior figures from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party met Demirtas, the party's former co-chairperson, at Edirne prison near the Greek border.

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