Devlet Bahçeli, leader of government ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) vowed not to back down from an initiative he co-founded for the dissolution of the terrorist group PKK. Addressing his party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, Bahçeli said their “terror-free Türkiye and terror-free region” goals were “moves for self-determination of the fate of the Turkish nation.” “Whoever dismisses these goals are puppets and cowards. Whoever attempts to undermine it with their remarks and actions has bad intentions,” he said.
Bahçeli launched the initiative in 2024 in another parliamentary group meeting of the MHP, where he called upon the PKK’s jailed ringleader, Abdullah Öcalan, to order the group to lay down arms after more than four decades of violence.
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