Türkiye expects to present a legal framework for its "Terror-Free Türkiye" initiative before Parliament adjourns for its summer recess, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy Chair and spokesman Ömer Çelik said Monday, as the government intensifies efforts to cement the country's anti-terror strategy through legislation.
Speaking after the AK Party Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Çelik said officials were holding lengthy meetings almost every day to finalize the legal groundwork for the process.
"Our preparations for the Terror-Free Türkiye initiative are continuing," Çelik said. "We hold meetings almost every day. Sometimes we meet twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. God willing, we will have established this legal framework before Parliament closes."
Çelik said the initiative has entered a new phase focused on ensuring the disarmament of terrorist organizations while advancing Türkiye's broader goal of creating a terror-free region.
He described the process as multidimensional, involving political, legal, intelligence and strategic considerations, and said it has been carried out as a state policy under President Erdoğan's directives, with support from Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli and parliamentary efforts led by Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş.
