A delegation of the DEM Party, consisting of Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları, Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan, Foreign Affairs Commission Co-Chairperson Berdan Öztürk, Deputy Co-Chair Özlem Gündüz, Strasbourg Representative Fayik Yağızay and Brussels Representative Eyyüp Doru, held a series of diplomatic meetings in Strasbourg between 30 September and 3 October.

The DEM Party delegation attended the Left Group meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and Tülay Hatimoğulları made a speech there.

The delegation also held meetings with Miroslav Papa, Director General for Political and External Relations of the Council of Europe (CoE), Zanda Kalnina-Lukas, Chair of the CoE Monitoring Committee, Frank Schwabe, Chair of the CoE Social Democrat and Greens Group, Thedoros Rousopoulos, President of PACE, Alain Berset, Secretary General of the CoE and Gianluca Esposito, Director General for Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the CoE.

According to the DEM Party Press Office, during the meetings, the party's views and suggestions were shared on issues such as the non-implementation of ECtHR judgements, the problems experienced in Turkey in the fields of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, the aggravated isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and three fellow prisoners in İmralı Island Prison, the CPT's reports on the matter and the democratic solution of the Kurdish question.

During the meetings, it was underlined that the DEM Party will continue its efforts to ensure that the relations between Turkey and the CoE member states are carried out on a transparent and democratic basis.

Afterwards, the delegation headed by Tülay Hatimoğulları met with DEM Party voters in Strasbourg and discussed current developments in Turkey and the region.