Ömer Çelik, the AK Party's spokesperson, stepped in front of cameras at a press conference on 27 July 2026. "We will pass this law before parliament closes," he said. "Whether it happens this week or slips a little later, the work continues. Sometimes it can happen earlier than you hope." The law he was describing would govern the disarmament and dissolution of the PKK terrorist organization, the closing step of the Terörsüz Türkiye process, the terror-free Türkiye effort the government has run for more than a year. His statement described the timing, not the contents.
The latest. The text of the bill has not been made public. Coordinators from the parties on the parliamentary commission are still negotiating a joint version.
That recess deadline is the only fixed point anyone offers. Both parties at the center of the process name the same one, and neither will name a date.
Start with the numbers, because they don't hold still. Sözcü reported on 27 July 2026, citing information it had obtained, that the bill would run to 10 articles and be submitted on 28 or 29 July 2026. The next morning the same paper reported it at 15 articles, going to parliament on Monday 3 August 2026, this time relaying an account in another outlet, which it did not name, quoting Justice Minister Akın Gürlek. On that account Gürlek said there is no general amnesty in the package and no arrangement written for one person, that it covers only members of the PKK, that it is temporary and stands alone with a six-month limit, and that it excludes anyone who killed police officers or soldiers. The Justice Ministry has published nothing on the framework law, so those details rest on that chain of reporting.
Sözcü, in a separate interview published the same morning, reported the text is expected to be short. Pick one: 10 articles, 15 articles, or short.
Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, the DEM Party's group deputy chair, told reporters at the TBMM on 27 July 2026 that she could confirm the law would pass before parliament closed. She also said the legislative calendar had not been settled. Both things at once, from the party closest to the negotiation.
Her framing of the bill matters more than the timing. "The framework law is not a result," she said, calling it the first step of a new beginning, and she said changes to the Execution Law and the Anti-Terror Law could follow, with the framework law as their reference point. She proposed a peace monitoring and follow-up board inside parliament with every party represented.
Tülay Hatimoğulları, the DEM Party's co-chair, set out what her party wants from the law at its group meeting on 28 July 2026. Her definition of "return" covered exiles coming back to the country, prisoners returning to their families, public servants dismissed by decree returning to their professions, and people who have been prosecuted returning to political life, according to ANKA Haber Ajansı. Set that beside "only members of the PKK" and the two accounts are describing different bills.
Müsavat Dervişoğlu, the İYİ Party's leader, says he has seen none of it. TBMM Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş visited six parties on 23 July 2026, and Dervişoğlu said afterwards that no information about the framework law was shared with the opposition, covertly or otherwise. "They come to visit us, and they send the draft law to İmralı," he said in an interview with Sözcü, naming the island prison where the PKK's founder Abdullah Öcalan is held. He called the process a betrayal and said he had told the government to "ask our nation whether terrorists should be pardoned" and hold a referendum. The country learns what is happening, he said, from what leaks to the media.
The procedure from here is not in dispute. A proposal goes to the Speaker's Office, then to the Justice Committee, then to the General Assembly. The AK Party's stated aim is a text prepared with every party's support, drafted by the five coordinators: Abdulhamit Gül for the AK Party, Murat Emir for the YENİ Party, Koçyiğit for the DEM Party, Feti Yıldız for the MHP and Bülent Kaya for the Yeni Yol group.
Dervişoğlu says his party will meet the bill with resistance from the moment it reaches committee. He will have to read it first, and so will everyone else.