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Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization, MIT, Director Ibrahim Kalin has briefed Türkiye's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party officials on the "Terror-Free Türkiye" process, with AK Party sources telling Turkish media outlet Türkiye daily that no meaningful progress has been made beyond "symbolic disarmament."
The report noted that the Iran war has introduced a new complicating factor, with the PKK entering what sources described as "different expectations and movements" that have delayed the legal reform phase, according to a Sunday report by Yucel Kayaoglu.
The sources confirmed that MIT Director Kalin had recently given a presentation to the party, during which it was established that "no noteworthy new development beyond symbolic disarmament had occurred in the field."
Sources quoted in the Türkiye daily's report said, "The organization has not disarmed. The organization still exists. How are we supposed to pass a law in this situation? Law is built on material reality. Right now, there is no material reality indicating that weapons have been laid down. The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) wants a legal text written on assumptions and uncertainties. That cannot happen."
"The delay is not from us; it comes from the organization. If there is a concrete development on disarmament, legal steps will be taken immediately. We are waiting for confirmation from MIT and other verification mechanisms," the sources added.
AK Party officials expressed the view that Qandil, the PKK's leadership in northern Iraq, was disregarding the stated will of imprisoned PKK ringleader Abdullah Ocalan, who has publicly called for the organization to disarm and dissolve.
"DEM Party and PKK are not sincere. They said 'if a commission is formed it will accelerate, if a report comes it will accelerate, if the commission visits İmralı it will accelerate.' But looking at where we are, there has been no development beyond symbolic disarmament," the sources noted.
"Instead of trying to discipline the government, the DEM Party should make disarmament the agenda. They persistently avoid the disarmament issue and ignore Ocalan's will. Qandil doesn't want to give up billions of dollars in rents either," sources added.
The ruling party sources reportedly said the Iran war had intervened in the process at a critical moment, saying, "We thought that the necessary confirmations and findings should be made this month and we should move to the legal regulation phase. But when the Iran factor intervened, the situation changed."
"Making legal regulations in such an environment means returning to the old process, and we absolutely do not want that. We maintain our determination that legal regulation must come after confirmation and verification," the sources said.
"For this reason, the Iran issue needs to be clarified first. We will follow the course of events; when the organization does what is required of it, legal regulations will come onto the agenda," sources noted.
They added that Iran-related developments had caused the organization to "enter into different expectations and movements."
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