Turkey’s Erdogan Meets Pro-Kurdish Party to Discuss PKK Disarmament

Turkey’s Erdogan Meets Pro-Kurdish Party to Discuss PKK Disarmament
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a media conference at a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. Matthias Schrader/AP Photo
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a closed-door meeting on July 7 with leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party to discuss the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorist group.

In a statement released after the July 7 meeting, the DEM Party said that “the mutual will to move the process along” had been emphasized at the meeting with the Turkish leader.