RINO: Agencies – Turkey has decided to allow a pro-Kurdish party in parliament to hold talks with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in his prison on an island, paving the way for the first such visit in nearly a decade, the pro-government Sabah newspaper said on Thursday.

The Equality and Peoples’ Democracy Party delegation is expected to head to the prison on the island of Imrali on Thursday or Friday, the newspaper reported on its website without specifying its source.

The decision comes after a key ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed the move as part of an attempt to end the 40-year conflict between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is led by Ocalan.