The framework law governing the PKK terrorist organization takes effect only after the PKK has disbanded. Numan Kurtulmuş, the Speaker of parliament, set out the condition on 30 July 2026: the weapons down, the organization dissolved completely, and that dissolution established and registered as fact.
The latest. The AK Party is still redrafting. The proposal was expected at the Speaker's Office this week and is now targeted for Monday 3 or Tuesday 4 August 2026, according to ANKA Haber Ajansı. It would then go to the Justice Committee without delay and to the General Assembly without the usual two-day interval. Parliament can sit until 14 August if the floor debate runs long. The text has still not been published, and whether parties beyond the AK Party will put their names to it is unsettled.
What the Speaker says it is
Kurtulmuş was in İnebolu to present the Black Sea town with a second Independence Medal, and he was more specific about the law than anyone in the government has been so far.
The law is "never in the nature of a general amnesty, never in the nature of a personal amnesty," he said. It will be temporary, and exclusively about the dissolution of the organization.
The weapons, the dissolution and the official finding that the organization has gone all have to land before the law does anything at all.
That settles something the reporting could not. Until now the no-amnesty claim reached the public through a chain: Sözcü relaying an unnamed outlet quoting Justice Minister Akın Gürlek. It is now on the record, from the Speaker.
He also said the work is "almost at the end," which is a shade short of finished, and hoped for a text carrying every party's agreement.
What the PKK says it should be
The organization issued its own statement the same day, reported by ANKA Haber Ajansı, and the two accounts are not describing the same law.
Reducing the process to disarmament alone, it said, is not in keeping with its spirit. It wants the bill understood as a "root law," the first of a sequence, with democratization legislation to follow. Kurtulmuş had just called it temporary and confined to dissolution.
It also wants the vocabulary changed. Continuing to use "terror" and "terrorist organization" for a group that has dissolved itself and ended its armed struggle would, the statement said, make the process problematic from the outset. "Peace begins first of all in language."
The third demand is about one man. The statement says it is not possible to meet the law's requirements unless Abdullah Öcalan enters the process and runs it himself, and that his position must be clarified and his freedom realized. It refers to a view it attributes to MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, that Öcalan should be a peace and politicization coordinator, and says this was accepted in discussions at İmralı. Bahçeli has not been heard on that in the past week, and the characterization is the statement's own.
On the law itself the organization is waiting. It will set out its main approach after it has seen the text, and if the law is positive, it said, it will do its part.
So each side is watching the other. The law only bites once the PKK has verifiably gone, and the PKK will not say what it makes of the law until it can read it.
The price the government puts on it
Erdoğan closed the 69th cabinet meeting on 29 July by putting a number on the thing the law is meant to end.
Citing a current study by his own party's Economic Affairs Directorate, he said terrorism has cost Türkiye $511 billion in GDP, $5,800 in per-capita income, $110 billion in exports and 2.5 million jobs. Cumulative borrowing costs over 40 years approach $520 billion and lost tax revenue approaches $123 billion. Direct and indirect together, he put the bill above $2.3 trillion, and said the figure is nearly double that once opportunity costs are counted. The annual average, he said, runs past $50 billion.
It is a party study rather than a state or independent one, produced by the party that is about to ask parliament to legislate. Set against it is the plainest thing Erdoğan said all evening, that when the process arrives "the Kurd will gain as much as the Turk, and so will the Arab, the Laz and the Circassian."
He also said the regulation would go to parliament "in the coming days." That was three days ago.
Nobody outside the room has read it
The AK Party has been working with the MHP, its partner in the People's Alliance, and in contact with DEM Party members. It plans to show the draft to the other parties before submitting it. Whether any of them signs is the open question, and it will be answered in meetings that have not happened yet.
Yavuz Ağıralioğlu, who leads Anahtar Parti, put the objection at its sharpest on 29 July. "A text that Öcalan sees before parliament and before the nation's deputies is not called a draft law," he wrote. "It is called a negotiation text."