22.02.2026 07:20
President Erdoğan instructed his advisors after information emerged in the public regarding the possibility of terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan gaining his right to hope and freedom. Erdoğan said, "There will be no special arrangement for individuals. We need to be very careful about this. We must explain this very well to our citizens."
After the emergence of the parliamentary report for a terrorism-free Turkey, the legal status of the members of the terrorist organization who laid down their arms came to the agenda.
According to the news from Yücel Kayaoğlu of Türkiye Newspaper, President Erdoğan instructed his aides that "it should be well explained that there will be no individual right to hope" for the upcoming work.
ERDOĞAN: THERE WILL BE NO INDIVIDUAL ARRANGEMENT
It was learned that Erdoğan, who requested caution regarding the information that "Öcalan will gain his freedom through the right to hope," said, "That can't happen, we need to be very careful about this. We need to explain it very well to the citizens. There will be no individual arrangement."
"THE RIGHT TO HOPE IS BEING MISUNDERSTOOD"
AK Party sources, regarding the presentation they made to Erdoğan about the legal steps to be taken after the dissolution of the organization and the laying down of arms, stated, "This is a very sensitive issue. We will see the threshold determined by MIT. The President's instruction is to 'take this matter seriously.' The right to hope is also being misunderstood. It is not a pardon, not a reduction of sentence, not a release. When the right to hope is mentioned in the field, it is perceived as if a pardon will be granted to Öcalan. There will be no such thing."