A Turkish parliamentary team on Monday held rare talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), as part of Ankara’s renewed push to end the decades-long Kurdish insurgency.

According to a statement from the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the meeting focused on the PKK’s announcement earlier this year that it would dissolve the organisation and give up arms. Discussions also covered steps to implement an agreement envisioning the integration of Kurdish forces into a restructured Syrian army.

The PKK — listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union — has fought the Turkish state since 1984. The group initially demanded an independent Kurdish state before shifting toward autonomy and wider cultural and political rights within Turkey. The conflict has long spilled over into Iraq and Syria.

But progress on the March 10 deal between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has largely stalled. Ankara, which sees the SDF as an extension of the PKK, has been pushing for the agreement to move forward amid concerns that Syrian Kurdish fighters could retain de facto autonomy near Turkey’s border.

Monday’s statement said the talks “concluded with positive outcomes aimed at strengthening social cohesion, brotherhood, and advancing the process from a regional perspective,” adding that lawmakers collected “detailed declarations” from Ocalan.

Turkish media reported that the three-member delegation met Ocalan for about five hours on Imrali island, where he has been held since his 1999 capture. Despite his isolation, the 76-year-old remains a central figure for many Kurds and is widely viewed as critical to any lasting settlement.

The PKK declared in May that it would disband and disarm, following Ocalan’s call to end armed struggle. A symbolic disarmament ceremony was later held in northern Iraq, where fighters began surrendering their weapons. Last month, the group said its remaining members had withdrawn from Turkey into Iraq.

Several earlier attempts at peace between Ankara and the PKK collapsed, most recently in 2015.