I thought the terrorist leader didn't want 'Autonomy'!..

The DEM Party's Imralı delegation visited MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, the architect of the new opening, on Friday. At the end of the visit, Pervin Buldan of the DEM Party stated that in this "valuable and precious" meeting, they discussed the "stages the process has reached" and "what needs to be done," adding, "We have moved to the second stage, there is a need for a legal regulation," and then said, "Of course, there must be a peace law."

Bahçeli replied, "Ms. Pervin expressed every issue clearly. I sign my name to every sentence of hers."

Do you see? In the report prepared by the DEM Party as part of the work of the PKK commission in Parliament, the 1921 constitution was praised once again, and the nation-state and the Treaty of Lausanne were targeted. I wonder if they would also sign every sentence in this report?

According to Ms. Pervin and Bahçeli, "of course there must be a peace law"... Peace with whom and for what?!..

Let's get the answers from the old Bahçeli:

"The heirs of those who signed the Treaty of Sèvres by calling it a peace treaty are today preparing the funeral ceremony of the Turkish nation once again with words of peace... If peace is being mentioned, has a war been entered into and is this what is intended to be ended? If there was a war, who or what does the opposing front consist of? Has the PKK become the equal and interlocutor of the Turkish state?.. The freakish phrase 'there is no winner in peace, no loser in war' has been served up almost to equate and show the Republic of Turkey as the same as the PKK."

"We see that the bloody roadmap determined by the monster of Imralı in 2009, the route of death, has been and is being implemented one by one by the AKP... The monster of Imralı emphasized the 1921 Constitution and praised this constitution, and the Prime Minister expressed the same. The monster of Imralı mentioned that problems began to be experienced after 1924, and the Prime Minister used the same language... Under the joint efforts of this duo, Turkey is being dragged into hell with cries of solution and peace."

THE ''OUR LANDS'' DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT 

Do you remember a debate that took place in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) about a year ago?

DEM Diyarbakır deputy Ceylan Akça spoke as follows while explaining the electricity problem in the region:

"Diyarbakır is a place that can suffice for its own problems locally, but if you are going to defend central administration, you are obliged to ensure that our taxes return to us. It is not your place to cut our flights in the summer. It is not your right to build a dam on our lands and then sell us the electricity you obtain from those dams at exorbitant prices. It is not your place to impose heavy electricity bills on our farmers on the lands you have turned arid with our water, and to carry out their agricultural activities."

Upon this, AKP Group Deputy Chairman Özlem Zengin asked what the phrase "our land" meant to her, whether the location of Diyarbakır had changed, emphasized that "our citizens understood very well what she was saying," and stated that "she has no right to use divisive expressions regarding Turkey."

A similar debate broke out on November 19th during the deliberations of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure's budget at the TBMM Planning and Budget Committee. This time, DEM Siirt deputy Sabahat Erdoğan Sarıtaş claimed that transportation projects were concentrated in the western provinces, while "in Kurdish provinces, projects either started late or were not completed for years." Committee Chairman Mehmet Muş of the AKP warned Sarıtaş about the phrase "Kurdish provinces," saying, "There is no such province as 'Kurdish provinces.' We have 81 provinces."

SECRET DEALINGS FROM THE NATION 

After these notes, let's come to the meeting the terrorist leader held with three deputies, which means being taken as an interlocutor by the TBMM as a so-called "chief negotiator."

Not the entire 16-page transcript, but only 4 pages with no clear beginning or end were released.

For example; it was said to "him," meaning the terrorist leader, that "using language belonging to the period before Lausanne and 1924 is poisoning the process"... Who said it, and more importantly, what the terrorist leader answered; it is not there.

For example; it was reminded to the terrorist leader that "there is no separate state, federation, administrative autonomy, or culturalist solutions in the February 27th call"... It is not clear who reminded him, but the terrorist leader only confirmed it by saying, "Yes, that is so."

When the issue of handling the subject in a secret session in the TBMM came to the agenda during the first opening process in 2009, MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli reacted as follows:

"The Turkish nation will evaluate very well why those who want the TBMM to handle this issue in a secret session to hide the facts from the Turkish nation are ashamed. I declare in advance that if the AKP insists on holding a closed session of Parliament, we will personally explain to the Turkish nation what transpired after the session."

What happened this time?

The DEM members explained the content of the meeting. Debates took place. While Bahçeli cut it short by saying, "The messages of the founding leadership of the PKK are reasonable, positive, credible, and certain," he described the statements made as "purposeful," "distorting the process," and "muddying the clear water."

WHAT IS THIS TRANSCRIPT?

But the day before yesterday, Journalist-Writer Saygı Öztürk from Sözcü wrote about what was discussed in Imralı. As of today, it is the third day, and there has been no mention of "misleading the public" or, in the terrorist leader-Imralı-DEM jargon, "inciting the peoples to hatred and hostility."

According to what Saygı Öztürk conveyed, the terrorist leader listed his well-known demands: granting amnesty to PKK members, providing them with jobs, subjecting them to rehabilitation, removing obstacles to their political activities; first education in the mother tongue, then recognizing Kurdish as an official language, and amending Article 66 of the Constitution regarding citizenship.

He also asked for something beyond the Barzanistan model in Iraq, and he did not address the issue of the Syrian PKK, the SDG/YPG/PYD, at all.

The terrorist leader ordered one more thing; while demanding the fulfillment of the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the strengthening of local administrations, he said, "For example, a portion of the revenue obtained from the oil produced in Kurdistan should be left to the local administrations there."

Saygı Öztürk rightly commented, "It won't stop there; they will also demand a share of the electricity obtained from the dams in the Southeast," while also conveying the following information:

"Some of Öcalan's requests were very heavy for the MHP and AKP members... The prevailing view is that no statements were made because Öcalan's requests would have a negative impact on the public and because he made excessive demands."

So what does this mean? Despite the assertive statements of the authorities and finally its inclusion in the transcript, the terrorist leader has not given up on "autonomy" or anything like that!..

IF YOU SAY ''AS LONG AS THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED''

Even though the unchanging demands of the separatist terrorists are clear, Erdoğan spoke as follows at the TİSK General Assembly last Thursday:

"Our goal is clear. Let no more blood be shed, let no more fires fall on homes, let no more hearts be scorched. Let Turkey remove this problem from its agenda completely. Despite the destructive and provocative rhetoric of circles fed by terrorism, we have shown that our sincerity and determination as the government and the alliance have been at the highest level since the first day. Just so that this problem is solved. Again, as an alliance, we have put our entire body, along with our hands, under the stone. We have always acted constructively, with a conciliatory attitude and good faith, so that opposition parties would also be included in the process... I believe that the Commission, which strengthens our nation's hopes for the process, will continue the same self-confident approach until the last moment. I hope that the Commission report will draw a common perspective for the subsequent steps with its suggestions and evaluations that will pave the way for the process."

Then, let us end with the following questions that MHP leader Bahçeli directed to Erdoğan, who also said, "Let the bloodshed end, let martyr mothers not cry" during the first opening process, which was called the "democratic opening, brotherhood, national unity and integrity project":

"Will you stop the bloodshed by starting a process of ethnic separation, conflict, and division in Turkey? Will you soothe the tears of martyr mothers by surrendering to the terrorist organization and negotiating with them? Will you ensure Turkey's national unity by acting as a subcontractor for the separatist ambitions of separatist terrorism and by carrying these demands to the political stage?"

Müyesser YILDIZ

December 15, 2025