Peace commission to review İmralı visit next week

Representatives from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) traveled to the island on Nov. 24.

The talks yielded “positive results” for social cohesion and regional stability, according to commission chair and Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş’s office.

Hüseyin Yayman of the AKP, Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit of the DEM Party and Feti Yıldız of the MHP are expected to brief the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission on the discussions held with Öcalan.

The commission plans to finalize its report next month. The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the New Path group — an alliance that includes the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA Party), Felicity Party (SP) and Future Party — declined to send representatives for the İmralı visit.

The DEM Party has long maintained channels to Öcalan and initially proposed the delegation’s trip, a move that quickly secured support from the MHP.

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The initiative is overseen by a parliamentary commission chaired by Kurtulmuş. The panel is set to convene on Dec. 4 to review findings from a delegation that visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on the İmralı prison island earlier this week.

"We are consigning the issue of terrorism, which imperial projects use as pawns and see as a proxy for policies of division and fragmentation, to history, never to be revived again.”

The ceremony at Çukurova University was attended by Adana Governor Yavuz Selim Köşger, deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), as well as academics and students.

"We are now leaving behind the scourge of terrorism, which has shackled the 50 years of our republic, preventing this country from moving forward and preventing its people from forming the world’s strongest nation in unity,” he said.

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