Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit, Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, commented on the PKK’s disarmament ceremony, emphasizing the collective responsibility to build peace. “Öcalan addressed not only the state and the PKK, but also society and politics. This peace belongs to all of us, and so does the duty to build it,” she said.
Republican People Party (CHP) Chair Ozgur Ozel noted that the weapons destruction ceremony is “gratifying” and stated, “Establishing complete peace in Turkey is only possible with justice and democracy.
Making a statement after the ceremony in which the PKK destroyed weapons by burning them, AKP spokesman Ömer Çelik said that a critical threshold had been crossed to reach the target.
Making his first statement after the PKK's weapons disposal ceremony, Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahceli said that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan kept his promise and stood behind his commitment.
The meeting between Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar, members of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party Imrali Delegation, and AKP Chair and President Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex has ended
CHP Party Assembly Member Emine Uçak Erdoğan stated that legal regulations are necessary for the process to be permanent: "We need to organise a process together that is socialised and not closed in on itself."
DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan, in many events he attended in the UK, gave information about the ongoing process in the context of the solution of the Kurdish issue and called for support.
President of the European Congress of Local Authorities Marc Cools, Co-Rapporteur Bryony Rudkin and the accompanying delegation visited the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Headquarters.
DEM Party Co-Chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan met with prisoners in Marmara Prison with the agenda of a democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
President Erdogan called Iranian President Pezeshkian and asked him to return to nuclear negotiations.
DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır came together with Assyrians within the scope of Abdullah Öcalan's "Call for Peace and Democratic Society". "Mr Öcalan's philosophy offers a model of coexistence, equal, free, administrative and political model," he said.
DEM Party Spokesperson Aysegul Dogan stated: “We are planning to make a visit to İmralı Island as soon as possible. It is highly likely that Mr Öcalan will also meet with representatives of various political parties.”
Stating that socialists should not be content with watching the process, TÖP Spokesperson Board Member Juliana Gözen said that this period is a new threshold of struggle, a ground to leap accumulation, and that socialists should be the subject of the process.
"We would like the commission to be established within the Parliament to work efficiently in the coming days," said Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş after the DEM Party meeting,
Pointing to the developments regarding the solution of the Kurdish issue, DEM Party Istanbul Provincial Co-Chair Arife Çınar stated that an “extraordinary process” is taking place and stressed: “Even the Parliament going on holiday is a problematic situation.”