ANKARA,— Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that officials are preparing a legal framework intended to accelerate the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK, and that the proposal will be brought to parliament soon.
The announcement indicates a possible turning point after a peace effort between the Turkish state and the PKK stalled in recent months amid the Iran war and concerns it raised about wider regional instability.
The PKK has conducted a decades long insurgency against the Turkish state.
In May 2025, it decided to disarm and disband following an appeal from its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Turkey unveiled plans last November for a new legal framework, while Kurdish politicians criticized the government for moving too slowly.
In September 2025, senior PKK leader Murat Karayilan stated that Turkey had not taken any steps to move forward with the Kurdish peace process.
Erdogan told lawmakers from his ruling AK Party in parliament: “At the point we have reached, we are working on a legal framework that will speed up the disbandment of the group. Once the necessary deliberations have been made, we will present the legislation in question to parliament without too much delay,” without elaborating.
“I believe we have the capacity to solve the issue without compromising on our state’s qualities, our people’s values,” he added, saying that the integration of Syrian Kurdish militants in Rojava Kurdistan into Syria’s state apparatus, a key element of the process, was also moving along.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which denies constitutional existence of Kurds, seeking greater autonomy in Turkish Kurdistan for Kurdish minority, who make up nearly 30 percent of Turkey’s population of 85 million based on 2012 statistics.
The conflict has killed more than 40,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdish guerrillas, according to Turkey.
Officials say the legislative process is expected to continue in coming weeks pending parliamentary review and consultations process.
(With files from Reuters)
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