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Türkiye's Nationalist Victory Party Chairman Umit Ozdag has strongly criticized the government's anticipated parliamentary commission regarding what it calls the “Terror-Free Türkiye” process.
Ozdag described the initiative as a renewed dialogue with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed ringleader of the PKK terrorist organization, and accused the government of granting legitimacy to the PKK through indirect negotiations.
Speaking in the central province of Nevsehir, where he visited local officials and attended the opening of the party’s provincial office, Ozdag said the ruling coalition was effectively forming a new political alliance by including the pro-Kurdish DEM Party.
He referred to this alignment as the "DAM alliance" — an acronym representing Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), Justice and Development Party (AK Party), and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
Ozdag claimed that the process was leading to the release of PKK convicts and that symbolic disarmament efforts in northern Iraq, such as the public burning of old rifles, were being misrepresented as genuine demilitarization.
He alleged that instead of surrendering arms, the PKK was redirecting weaponry and trained fighters to affiliated groups in Syria and Iran.
The Victory Party leader also praised the nationalist IYI Party for announcing its refusal to join the prospective parliamentary commission.
He called on the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to follow suit, warning that participation would lend legitimacy to what he described as an "Ocalan-centered" initiative.
“The PKK does not see itself as defeated,” Ozdag said, arguing that genuine peace could only be achieved through military resolve, not negotiations.
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