In recent weeks, controversies over a new “solution process” have dominated the agenda. Although it is said that the process has been prepared for a long time at the state level, the fuse of the debate was lit by Bahçeli’s gestures of sympathy and his outstretched hand to the members of the DEM party at the opening of the new parliamentary term. What really fuelled the debate was Bahçeli’s invitation to Öcalan to come to parliament and make a speech in his parliamentary caucus speech. However, the fact that these “agenda-breaking” statements and gestures were followed by armed actions, bombings, new arrests of politicians and the illegal dismissal of elected mayors and the appointment of so-called trustees in their place shows from the beginning that the heated political process will not follow a straight course.
