PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan who was brought to Turkey as a result of an international conspiracy on 15 February 1999 remains in isolation in İmralı Island Prison since.

An international delegation led by South African Leader Nelson Mandela's lawyer Essa Moosa has arrived in Istanbul to make efforts for the ending of the isolation on the Kurdish leader and the ongoing war in North Kurdistan.

The delegation which has conveyed to the Ministry of Justice their request for a meeting with Minister Bekir Bozdağ will have a series of talks with representatives of political parties, non-governmental organisations, intellectuals and academics during their three-day visit in Turkey.

The first meeting of the delegation took place with Democratic Society Congress (DTK), which will be followed by talks with HDP and NGOs. Members of the delegation are still waiting for an answer from the Ministry of Justice to their application for a visit to Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı.

The 11-person delegation is made up of;

- South African Leader Nelson Mandela's lawyer Essa Moosa from the International Peace and Reconciliation Initiative

- Independent author, copy editor, and graphic artist Janet Biehl from America

- Political activist, writer and publisher Dimitri Roussopoulos from Canada, co-founder of International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace

- Academic Federico Venturini from the University of Leeds, UK,

- Academic Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley from the University of Cambridge, UK

- Social justice activist Dr. Radha D’Souza from UK

- Andrej Hunko, member of the German Parliament, Bundestag

- Author Eirik Eiglad from the New Compass, Norway

- Edgar de Jesús Lucena González from the Venezuealan Parliament

- Joe Ryan, Chair of Westminster Justice and Peace, UK

- Francisco Velasco Andrade, former Minister of Culture for Ecuador.