After 13 years, Erdogan meets with Kurdish deputies

Erdogan met at Ankara Presidential Palace with Sırrı Sureyya Onder ve Pervin Buldan Kuliye, deputies of the Party for Equality and People's Democracy.

” has been a very positive meeting, has gone well. Much more we have expectations”, Onder said.

Before the meeting, he said he would present Erdogan with the current state of peace talks, adding they believe the pace of the talks will intensify. The meeting, which has lasted an hour and a half, has also had the participation of Chief of Intelligence Services Ibrahim Kalin and Efkan Ala, deputy chairman of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party.

Buldan and Onder had previously visited Kurdistan Workers Party leader (PKK) in prison Abdullah Ocalan to discuss the final outcome of the hostilities in a conflict where tens of thousands of people have been killed, reports the telegraph, follow Periscope.

Ocalan, whom the PKK calls a terrorist organisation and most Western states label it as such, has demanded that the group be disbanded and handed over by the end of February. A few days later, The PKK declared a ceasefire.

The PKK has appealed that Ocalan be released from prison where he has been imprisoned since 1999, so that he can personally run the party congress that would lead to its dissolution.