'Terror-Free Turkey' Framework Bill Set for Parliament

Titled “Strengthening National Solidarity and Social Integration,” the proposal is intended to govern the next stage of the process after authorities formally confirm that PKK has fully disarmed and dissolved.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli became the first politician to sign the proposal on Aug. 4. Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş later added his signature.

Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers were due to be briefed at a closed parliamentary group meeting before the proposal’s formal submission.

AKP deputy group chair Abdulhamit Gül and parliament’s Justice Committee chair Cüneyt Yüksel also held meetings with the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the New Party, the New Path bloc and the İYİ (Good) Party to explain the proposal and seek support.

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) decided at an extraordinary executive board meeting that its co-chairs, members of its İmralı delegation, parliamentary group executives and lawmakers who served on the process commission would sign the bill.

The İYİ Party, which opposes the initiative and declined to join the parliamentary commission established to oversee it, held an extraordinary closed group meeting ahead of the bill’s submission. 

The full text has not yet been made public.

According to sources familiar with the draft, the proposal does not provide for a general amnesty or contain provisions tailored to a particular individual.

It would instead allow mechanisms such as probation and judicial supervision to be applied to PKK members who abandon arms and violence and are not implicated in serious crimes.

Senior members, those who ordered attacks and people convicted of offenses including murder or torture are expected to remain outside the scope of the legislation.

A six-month application period would begin only after the organization’s disarmament and dissolution are officially verified.

Separate mechanisms within the executive branch and parliament are also expected to monitor implementation.

The draft’s stated rationale argues that ending terrorism would strengthen domestic security and national unity while supporting regional trade corridors and allowing energy and transportation projects to proceed more safely.

Under the current timetable, the proposal is expected to be considered by parliament’s Justice Committee on Aug. 7 before being brought to the General Assembly on Aug. 9.

The initiative gained momentum after PKK announced in May 2025 that it had ended its armed campaign and dissolved its organizational structure.

PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Parliament’s National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission first convened on Aug. 5, 2025, exactly one year before the framework bill’s planned submission.