LAWYERS were able to visit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan today raising hopes of the restart of peace talks between Turkey’s government and the PKK.

The visit was the first since the state announced the lifting of a ban on such meetings last week.

Two members of Mr Ocalan’s legal team, lawyers Nevroz Uysal and Rezan Sarica, travelled to the prison island of Imrali in the Marmara Sea, his representatives confirmed.