Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Calls for End to Conflict: ‘No Kurdish Youth Should Ever Think of Joining the Mountains’

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Calls for End to Conflict: ‘No Kurdish Youth Should Ever Think of Joining the Mountains’

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş has thrown his weight behind the new “Terror-Free Türkiye” initiative, urging a complete shift from the “old language” of conflict to one of peace and brotherhood, with the goal of ensuring no Kurdish young person ever considers joining militant groups.

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Speaking after a new regulation was approved in Parliament, Kurtulmuş said Turks, Kurds, and other communities will move forward together under the new initiative, which aims to end armed conflict and remove militant threats from the country’s borders [219872][219331]. He called for a new era of integration, stressing that the period of hostility must be abandoned in favor of unity [219331]. The initiative, named by Turkish officials, has been discussed as a potential framework for disarmament and reintegration, though no operational details or timelines have been released [219872]. In a related development, Turkey’s Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi has summoned the governors, police chiefs, and gendarmerie commanders of all 81 provinces for an urgent meeting, which is also set to be attended by Kurtulmuş, amid a flurry of legislative activity [216888]. Meanwhile, Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the DEM Party, stated that the current process is not about division, conflict, or taking anything from anyone, during the party’s 3rd Ordinary Congress in the Aydın provincial organization [220368].

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