Erdoğan meets Bahçeli as anti-terror bill in focus
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Aug. 6, a day after a government-backed draft law aimed at supporting the dissolution of PKK was submitted to parliament.
The meeting in Ankara was expected to focus on the latest developments in the government’s “terror-free Türkiye” initiative and the legislative framework designed to support the process.
Submitted to parliament on Aug. 5, with the signatures of around 360 lawmakers, the draft law is intended to establish the legal basis for the process, which includes PKK laying down its arms and ending its decades-long armed campaign.
Parliament is expected to begin reviewing the proposal on Aug. 7. The ruling bloc aims to complete the process no later than Aug. 11, according to local media reports.
