President of the European Congress of Local Authorities Marc Cools, Co-Rapporteur Bryony Rudkin and the accompanying delegation visited the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Headquarters.
DEM Party Co-Chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan met with prisoners in Marmara Prison with the agenda of a democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
President Erdogan called Iranian President Pezeshkian and asked him to return to nuclear negotiations.
DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır came together with Assyrians within the scope of Abdullah Öcalan's "Call for Peace and Democratic Society". "Mr Öcalan's philosophy offers a model of coexistence, equal, free, administrative and political model," he said.
DEM Party Spokesperson Aysegul Dogan stated: “We are planning to make a visit to İmralı Island as soon as possible. It is highly likely that Mr Öcalan will also meet with representatives of various political parties.”
Stating that socialists should not be content with watching the process, TÖP Spokesperson Board Member Juliana Gözen said that this period is a new threshold of struggle, a ground to leap accumulation, and that socialists should be the subject of the process.
"We would like the commission to be established within the Parliament to work efficiently in the coming days," said Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş after the DEM Party meeting,
Pointing to the developments regarding the solution of the Kurdish issue, DEM Party Istanbul Provincial Co-Chair Arife Çınar stated that an “extraordinary process” is taking place and stressed: “Even the Parliament going on holiday is a problematic situation.”
Pointing to Abdullah Öcalan's call and the PKK's congress, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş said, "Turkey's Grand National Assembly has a duty from now on."
NEWS CENTER Efkan Ala stated regarding the debates on a new constitution: “Even if we hold a majority on our own, we would prefer to draft the constitution together with the opposition. A constitution that gains the consent of broad segments of society will open the way for Turkey.”
Calling for a new democratic and inclusive political direction amid changing regional democracy, “We have set democracy and the rule of law as the compass of this process” Tuncer Bakirhan said.
The DEM Party and MHP meeting, which lasted for about 40 minutes, ended.
The meeting between DEM Party Co-chairs Tulay Hatimogullari, Tuncer Bakırhan and MHP Chair Devlet Bahceli started.
We discussed the steps to be taken for peace and solution," DEM Party said in a statement following the meetings with CHP and YRP.
"There will be those who will try to poison the process, we are cautious," Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus said on the process launched to resolve the Kurdish issue.