Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with pro-Kurdish DEM Party MPs Pervin Buldan and Sirri Sureyya Onder to discuss the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants, in Ankara, Turkey, April 10, 2025. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party said on Thursday that its meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss a bid to advance a peace process took place in an extremely constructive and hopeful atmosphere.
The talks were part of efforts to end a 40-year-old insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which last month declared a ceasefire in response to its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for disarmament.
(Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Ezgi Erkoyun; Editing by Daren Butler)
