The Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the National Solidarity and Integration Coordination Board was established under Law No. 7595 on Strengthening National Solidarity and Social Integration, and entered into force on Aug. 18. The board held its first meeting under the chairmanship of Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz on Aug. 24.
The meeting was attended by ministers of justice, foreign affairs, interior and defense, as well as three bureaucrats (heads of the National Intelligence Organization, the secretary general of the Presidency and the National Security Council).
The meeting was the first concrete step taken to eliminate terrorism from the country and the wider region, remove violence from the country’s agenda and consolidate social cohesion. The board outlined a roadmap for its working conditions and discussed means to ensure high-level coordination among state institutions in implementing the legislation. Members of the board also mapped out the administrative procedures and guiding principles for the board's operations.
In its first meeting, the oversight board steering the terror-free Türkiye initiative took a critical step forward by establishing four specialized subcommittees: the Judicial and Legal Coordination Subcommittee, the Monitoring and Assessment Subcommittee, the Social Cohesion and Integration Subcommittee and the Disarmament and Strategic Coordination Subcommittee.
