18.11.2025 13:37
The co-chair of the DEM Party, Tuncer Bakırhan, responded to MHP leader Bahçeli's statement, "If necessary, I will go to İmralı." Bakırhan said, "This is extremely important and commendable. His statement that if the commission does not go, he will go himself shows the courage to take on a historic responsibility. The Parliamentary Commission must make its decision and go to İmralı without losing a single day."
MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli stated during his party's group meeting that he would go to İmralı if necessary.
Bahçeli said at the historic group meeting, "The ongoing discussions about whether to go to İmralı or not must come to an end. If the goal of a terrorism-free Turkey is to find life and ground in honest and sincere measures, then there will be no meaning in dragging our feet about going to İmralı. If direct contact is not established with one of the main interlocutors of the process, how will results be achieved, and how will progress be made? If the commission established in the Parliament cannot make a decision in this context, if no one is willing to undertake this visit, and if everyone insists on playing the three monkeys, I openly say; I will take three of my friends with me, I will not hesitate or shy away from going to İmralı with our own means, nor will I refrain from meeting face to face around a table."