The opposition failed to adopt a coherent policy framework regarding the Terror-Free Türkiye initiative, much like its approach to every other major issue. The New Path group (YY) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) joined the parliamentary commission. They called for an end to terrorism, yet deliberately attempted to pull Terror-Free Türkiye, fundamentally a state initiative, into the realm of everyday politics. Regardless of what they claim, they sought to make various parts of the initiative vulnerable to political exploitation.
When Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairperson Devlet Bahçeli issued the original call for the laying down of arms, CHP Chairperson Özgür Özel responded, “I raise the stakes, Devlet Bey. I, in turn, am offering the Kurds a state!” That off-the-cuff remark revealed the CHP’s true intention f
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