Recommendation to the commission: '15-20 PKK members should be sent abroad'

The National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission and former TBMM presidents are being listened to: “Perhaps it is necessary to send the 15-20 people (PKK members) in the mountains abroad at this stage.”

A parliamentary committee convened today for the seventh time to discuss the "legal requirements" of the PKK's disarmament process. Ten former parliamentary speakers were heard at the meeting.

Those names are: Hikmet Çetin, Ömer İzgi, Bülent Arınç, Köksal Toptan and Mehmet Ali Şahin, Cemil Çiçek, İsmet Yılmaz, İsmail Kahraman, Binali Yıldırım and Mustafa Şentop.

Speaking at the opening, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Numan Kurtulmuş said that three former parliamentary speakers could not be invited due to health problems.

Following Kurtulmuş's speech, former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Hikmet Çetin, spoke first and said:

" MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli has put a lot of effort into this process. I congratulate Bahçeli and those who support him.

Many people have come or will come from the mountains during this period. Those who are found to have committed no crime must be pardoned. It is very difficult to forgive those who participated in the armed struggle, used weapons for many years, and killed many people at this stage. They cannot circulate among society.

I think we need to send the 15-20 people in the mountains abroad at this stage, to some other countries. This could be Sweden, Norway, Denmark, or South Africa.

But they need to know that, over time, if society returns to a normal level, they too will be forgiven. But at this stage, it's very difficult to forgive them.

Those involved in the events in the mountains must be tried. At that trial, they will be told, "If everything returns to normal over time, we will forgive you ." This promise must be made to them. But of course, I don't see it possible to leave them untried.

I've been asked many times, "Can a Kurdish state be established?" It could be, but Turkey wouldn't be part of it. It's simply not possible. Multi-party politics has solved this problem since 1950.

Turks and Kurds aren't like the black and white of America. The religion is the same, the sect is the same. I've never met anyone who said, "I won't marry a Kurd, I won't marry a Turk. " We're very intertwined.

That's why it's impossible. So, what are you going to say to the 3-4 million Kurds in Istanbul? Are you going to tell them to leave Istanbul? They have jobs, they have the power. It's impossible.