Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, answering journalists' questions in Mardin on Sunday, said that a definite decision would be made today in the evening, after his return to Ankara, on who will be taking place in the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) delegation to make the next visit to Imralı. Erdoğan added that BDP has already presented the names for the delegation to the Ministry of Justice.

On the other hand,it has been reported that Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's brother Mehmet Öcalan will visit his brother in Imralı Prison today.

Öcalan, who has been denied meeting with his lawyers since 27 July 2011, has been visited two times by his brother since then, on 17 November 2012, and 14 January 2013.

During the meeting in November 2012, Öcalan called on prisoners on mass hunger strike to “end their fast without hesitation” . The strike, joined by hundreds of Kurdish political prisoners in Turkish jails, was ended upon the Kurdish leader's call.

During the meeting in January 2013, Öcalan condemned the execution of three Kurdish politicians, Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, in Paris on 9 January. Öcalan said through his brother that it was important to shed light on the killings as this would also help to progress the ongoing process of talks. He said the assassination was a message and that the perpetrators should be found out quickly.

Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Ahmet Türk and Peace and BDP Batman MP Ayla Akat visited the Kurdish leader on Imralı Island on 3 January 2013.