Senior officials from Turkey's pro-Kurdish political party were set to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, on Thursday, as part of renewed peace efforts between Ankara and the banned Kurdish group.

The officials from the Equality and Democracy Party, DEM, are expected to convey a message from Ocalan, which is widely anticipated to be a call for the PKK to disarm. The call could potentially bring an end to a conflict that has spanned over four decades and claimed tens of thousands of lives.