Can Dündar met with PKK leader Öcalan in Syria

A photograph of Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, standing beside Abdullah Öcalan, the leader and founding member of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) terrorist organization has emerged.

The photograph was taken in Syria in 1994. Journalists Ayşe Önal and Yazgülü Aldoğan can also be seen in the photograph.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Dündar, who fled from Turkey as a fugitive to Germany. He has previously been detained for of "acting on behalf of the terrorist organization FETÖ and the PKK," and for “leaking secret information of the state".

The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the European Union and the United States, has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984.

More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade conflict.