Erdogan Meets Pro-Kurdish Politicians in Bid to End Decades of Violence

The Turkish president met two parliamentary deputies from the Ankara Parliament supportive of the ethnic group at his presidential palace in Ankara.

A youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in Istanbul on March 21, 2018. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 10 held his first meeting with pro-Kurdish politicians who are working to bring an end to the 40-year conflict between Turkey and Kurdish militants.

Pervin Buldan and Sirri Sureyya Onder, parliamentary deputies for the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM Party, met with Erdogan at his presidential palace in Ankara.