In the last week of June, at his parliamentary group meeting, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the new stage of the Terror-Free Türkiye process, saying: "We are working on a legal framework that will accelerate the organization's dissolution process. After completing the necessary consultations, we will submit this regulation without further delay to the discretion of Parliament, which is the address for resolving problems."
The day before, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş outlined the general framework of the legal regulation. From the statement, it is understood that the law will be time-bound and stand-alone. Its scope, duration of implementation, oversight mechanism, and who will benefit under which conditions will all be clearly defined. The regulation will not carry the character of a general amnesty or a personal pardon.
The state and political establishment's new solution-oriented approach toward the Terror-Free Türkiye goal was first announced in 2024 during the Aug. 30 Victory Day ceremonies at Malazgirt. In the nearly two years since, critical stages and thresholds have been passed on the way to this goal.
The terrorist organization's dissolution decision, the weapons-burning ceremony, the decision to withdraw from Türkiye, decisions taken by the state and political actors throughout this process, the establishment of the Process Commission, and the completion of its report at the end of its work – each stage has arrived at the present day through various tests and challenges. In other words, the process has been advanced all the way to the stage of legal regulation.
