Turkey's pro-Kurd party to meet jailed PKK leader on Saturday

FILE - Supporters of the pro-Kurdish DEM party display flags with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 17, 2024. Ocalan has been imprisoned in solitary confinement on an island near Istanbul since 1999.

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.