President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday lauded a parliamentary committee’s decision to visit the terrorist group PKK’s jailed ringleader, Abdullah Öcalan. “It is a decision that will contribute to the terror-free Türkiye process and accelerate an end to terrorism,” he said as he was answering questions by journalists on his way to Türkiye from South Africa, where he attended a G-20 summit over the weekend.
The terror-free Türkiye initiative launched by Devlet Bahçeli, chair of government ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), took a new turn last week when a group of lawmakers agreed to visit Öcalan in the island prison where he was incarcerated. It was Bahçeli who urged lawmakers to hold talks with Öcalan in a recent speech and volunteered to go by himself if no one else did.
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