05.08.2026 16:54
AK Party Group Chairman Abdullah Güler, in response to a question about easing the working conditions of Abdullah Öcalan, said, "These are matters that can always be carried out easily without the need for a legal regulation. If you ask us, in the upcoming processes, academic and journalist visits to İmralı and statements on this matter can be made through administrative regulation, subject to a certain discipline and rules. However, there is no need for a legal basis for this, nor is there a need for a status."
AK Party Group Chair Abdullah Güler, while explaining the details of the "Law Proposal on Strengthening National Solidarity and Social Cohesion" submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM), stated that administrative arrangements could be made regarding the working conditions and visits of PKK terrorist organization leader Abdullah Öcalan. Güler emphasized that academic and journalist visits on İmralı could take place through administrative decisions and that there was no need for additional legal ground or status for this.
"NATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL COHESION" PROPOSAL IN TBMM The AK Party submitted its Law Proposal on Strengthening National Solidarity and Social Cohesion, prepared within the scope of the "Terror-Free Turkey" process, to the TBMM Speaker's Office. Group Chair Abdullah Güler, who faced press members in the AK Party headquarters foyer area, answered questions regarding the proposal. Güler announced that the Justice Commission was planned to convene around 15:00 on Friday, August 7, to discuss the proposal.
"DON'T FOCUS ON NUMBERS, OUR AIM IS TO COMPLETELY ELIMINATE TERRORISM" Stating that he would make a summary presentation on the issue to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Central Executive Committee (MKYK) meeting, Güler answered the question about how many people would benefit from the regulation as follows: "Our conditions for conditional release are defined in our Penal Code and Execution Law. The number you give today may change tomorrow. Because this is a dynamic period. So, if 30 or 40 people currently meet the conditions, they can naturally and justifiably be released. But this is a long process. Look, without the verification mechanism here developing, there is no possibility of benefiting from either Article 3 or Article 6."
The verification mechanism will first be managed by a National Security Council (MGK) decision as a verification mechanism for the surrender and destruction of all weapons and the dissolution of the organization. Then the 6-month period begins. We are at the beginning; it is very early. Our aim is the complete elimination of terrorism from these lands. As for the number you mention now, it might be 4,000 after 6 months, or 3,000 after a year. You can't know; don't get hung up on this number, friends."
ABDULLAH ÖCALAN AND İMRALI VISITS Evaluating questions regarding the relaxation of working conditions for PKK terrorist organization leader Abdullah Öcalan and the processes on İmralı, Abdullah Güler emphasized that these steps could be taken with administrative decisions: "These are matters to be handled through administrative arrangements. Our penal institutions are defined. The administration of all penal institutions belongs to the Ministry of Justice. External security belongs to the Gendarmerie General Command. The demands of families regarding administrative arrangements, as well as our Ministry of Justice's regulatory actions, requests, and the institution's monitoring of the process... These are matters that can always be done easily, without needing a legal regulation."
If you ask us, in future processes, academic visits, journalist visits on İmralı, and statements on this matter can easily be done through administrative arrangements, under a certain discipline and subject to certain rules. But there is no need for legal ground or status for this, friends. We do not work with dreams. Law is based on material facts; if there is a need, the institution's work, expectations, and different situations will certainly come. This is not only related to this field, friends. Today we make a regulation regarding the Ministry of Labor, and a year later we make another one, or for the Ministry of Health. As needs develop, our Gazi Parliament will provide every kind of strong support within the scope of legislative activities."
Güler, in response to a question about the situation of terrorist leaders regarding the crime of intentional homicide in the proposal, pointed to practices before Turkish Penal Code (TCK) 765 and stated that these individuals were exceptions. He also added that the proposal did not cover the appointment of trustees.
STATEMENTS REGARDING WRITTEN AND JUDICIAL PROCESSES In response to a question about allegations that a criminal report (fezleke) would be prepared against CHP Leader Özgür Özel, Güler stated that the functioning of the independent judiciary was not interfered with, using the following expressions: "Friends, we do not interfere with the functioning of the judiciary. We do not interfere with the affairs of the independent and impartial judiciary. No parliamentarian has the freedom to commit crimes. How would I know what our parliamentarians got involved in... The independent, impartial judiciary carries out its own work. This is not a situation related to it. Therefore, everyone should mind their own business."
MHP'S YILDIZ: WE ARE SENDING THE TERROR SCOURGE TO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY Taking the floor after AK Party Group Chair Abdullah Güler's statements, MHP Deputy Chairman Feti Yıldız made the following assessment regarding the regulation: "With this law coming into effect, we are, God willing, sending the terror scourge that has plagued our nation for 50 years into the dark dustbin of history. I say may it be auspicious and beneficial. This will certainly continue. After this, amendments will definitely be made to the Political Parties Law, the Election Law, and Execution Law."