ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The leader of the Turkish far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Tuesday said that the next meeting with jailed Abdulla Ocalan must end in the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

“At the end of the second meeting to be held between the DEM delegation and İmrali, it must be declared without any conditions that the organizational existence of the PKK has ended, that no result could be achieved through terrorism,” Devlet Bahceli said at a press conference following his party’s parliamentary group meeting.

Ocalan has been serving a life sentence at Imrali prison, a small but high-security facility on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, since February 1999.

Bahceli added  “This bloody page has been closed by paying a great price. This is our absolute and unwavering expectation.”

“PKK terrorists must bury their arms, surrender with their weapons, or meet their inevitable end.” Bahceli stated, adding that “One can not negotiate or bargain with terrorists, they can only be fought.”

During a speech to his party’s bloc in the parliament in October, Bahceli proposed allowing Ocalan to appear before the legislature and declare the dissolution of the PKK.

 This initiative led to the DEM Party MPs Pervin Buldan and Sirri Sureyya Onder being granted the rare permission to meet with Ocalan at Imrali prison in December amid a shift in Ankara’s stance of prohibiting contact with the PKK founder.

It has remained unclear as to when the next meeting will be held with jailed PKK leader Ocalan.

“I am ready to take the necessary positive steps and make the call,” the MPs cited Ocalan as saying after the first meeting in December, adding, “this era is an era of peace, democracy, and brotherhood for Turkey and the region.”

The same DEM Party delegation that visited Ocalan, met with Demirtas, former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in Edirne Prison on Saturday, who announced his “full support” for the peace efforts between the Turkish state and the Kurds.

In 2013, the Turkish government, led by then-prime minister and current President Erdogan, entered a peace process with the PKK aimed at ending the decades of conflict and bloodshed. The truce was short-lived and collapsed in July 2015, leading to violent clashes in Turkey’s southeastern Kurdish areas.

The PKK is an armed group that has fought for increased Kurdish rights in Turkey for decades. The group is designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.