A delegation from Turkiye's pro-Kurdish political party met with a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, marking a step towards ending the country's 40-year conflict. The meeting with Selahattin Demirtas, who has been jailed on terrorism charges since 2016, followed a previous meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the PKK. Demirtas called for all sides to focus on a common future and credited Ocalan with raising the chance of the PKK laying down its arms. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the disbandment of the PKK and the surrender of its weapons in an address to ruling party supporters.