ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Head of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli on Sunday proposed the formation of a commission to oversee Turkey’s ongoing peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), after the latter’s announcement of their dissolution earlier in May.

Bahceli, who also put forward the proposal for the peace process in October, called on Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Numan Kurtulmus in a message on Sunday to establish a “National Unity and Solidarity Commission," with the aim of determining “the road map of the coming period,” according to media affiliated with the pro-Kurdish Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).

The PKK on Monday published the results of its recent seminal congress, announcing that the group has decided to dissolve and disband, ending an insurgency that spanned over four decades, after months of negotiations.

The PKK was an armed group that up until its disbandment in May 2025 claimed to fight for increased Kurdish rights in Turkey, predominantly engaging in armed struggle with Turkish forces from the mountainous borders of the Kurdish Region, Iraq, and Syria.

The group had long been recognized as a terrorist organization by Ankara, the US, and the European Union. It was also declared a banned organization by Iraq in 2024.

"Peace is not a bird with one wing," Bahceli said. “It is not possible to take off with one wing.” 

Bahceli’s proposal entails the formation of a commission that consists of 100 lawmakers from 16 political parties. Each party is represented by at least one member and has the right to appoint “two experts in their fields to work in the commission,” with the speaker of the parliament chairing the commission’s meetings. 

The decisions by the commission are then to be turned into proposals and submitted to the Turkish legislature as well as other corresponding “specialized commissions.” 

The PKK’s decision to abandon arms and end the decades-long armed struggle has been widely welcomed by local, regional and international powers, and serves as a fresh breath of air to millions in Turkey and beyond—Turks and Kurds alike—who have endured decades upon decades of a bloody conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.