Pro-Kurdish politicians are meeting the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as part of renewed peace efforts.

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group, the PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi said he welcomed the historic call by Ocalan for the PKK to drop its decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state, which he said would have positive consequences in the region. But Abdi said Ocalan’s announcement applied only to the PKK and was “not related to us in Syria”.