Buldan: Peace process entering phase of concrete steps
Deputy Parliament Speaker and DEM Party İmralı Delegation member Pervin Buldan, after meeting with the Peace Mothers in Van, said important developments on the process would come in the coming days.
RastinewsDeputy Speaker of Turkey's parliament, the TBMM, and DEM Party İmralı Delegation member Pervin Buldan met with the Peace Mothers in Van.
Writing on social media after the meeting, Buldan highlighted the persistence of women who have long borne the cost of war and conflict in calling for peace.
"The words of women who have carried the heaviest pain for years, yet still refuse to give up on peace and life, guide us. The Peace Mothers' persistence is the shared hope of all peoples. Amplifying this voice and making peace permanent is a responsibility we all share," Buldan said.
"Important developments coming"
Assessing the meeting afterward, Buldan said the process would move into a new phase.
"In the coming days we will likely enter a period in which more concrete, practical steps are taken," Buldan said, adding that these developments would give peace a more tangible form.
Buldan stressed that the process would not advance through official steps alone. "There is still a need for our struggle here. A shared, joint struggle is needed. We will keep doing this together," she said.
Process began in October 2024
The new process Ankara has branded "Terror-Free Turkey" began after Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli's October 2024 call addressed to Abdullah Öcalan.
On February 27, 2025, in a "Call for Peace and Democratic Society" read to the public by the İmralı Delegation, Öcalan called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. In May 2025, the PKK announced at its congress that it had decided to end its organizational existence.
In July 2025, a group of PKK members burned their weapons in Sulaymaniyah, and a commission was set up within the TBMM to discuss the legal groundwork for the process.