The deadline to file a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court (AYM) regarding the "framework law" that grants amnesty to the PKK terrorist organization ends on October 19, 2026. While the law in question was the main agenda of politics just two months ago, today a group of intellectuals remind us of this issue that politicians do not focus on.
The names who signed the statement made on behalf of the We Defend the Nation State Platform are Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör, Arslan Bulut, İsmail Çakmak, Gökhan Çapoğlu, Serap Çatalpınar, Seyfeddin Çelik, İsmail Çevik, Mehmet Ektaş, Ömer Faruk Eminağaoğlu, Hasan Erel, Utkan Güneş, Gürbüz Güngör, Filiz Karaman, Suay Karaman, Necla Kendigelen, Nasuh Mahruki, Hikmet Molu, Buket Müftüoğlu, Bartu Soral, Örsan Kunter Öymen, Hüseyin Özbek, Merih Şan, Ersan Tümay, Hatice Zeybek Uslu, Ümit Ülgen, Ahmet Yavuz and Mustafa Zengin.
WHY IS A CANCELLATION CASE REQUESTED TO BE FILED?
To summarize within the space allocated for this column, the statement basically includes the following warnings:
“This law is a law that will gradually eliminate the nation and unitary state character of the Republic.”
"No problems of the people are solved with the adopted law, and this law does not meet the expectations of the people."
"Aside from the fact that each article of the framework law, which consists of 12 articles, is unconstitutional more than once, the said law also violates the unchangeable provisions of the constitution."
WILL ANYONE FILE A LAWSUIT IN THE Constitutional Court?
The right to file an annulment lawsuit in the Constitutional Court for the annulment of a law that has come into force in Turkey belongs to the President, the two parties with the most members in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and at least 120 members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Since the AKP will not take such an initiative, the NEW Party, as the main opposition party, must file a lawsuit in order to go to the Constitutional Court.
While the framework law was voted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, 35 deputies, including Özgür Özel, voted in favor, while 54 deputies voted against it.
In the statement of the We Defend the Nation State Platform, it was stated that "NEW Party deputies should defend their historical responsibilities, their loyalty to the Constitution and their votes and file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court to annul all the provisions of this law and suspend their enforcement."
I do not think that the NEW Party can initiate the lawsuit process. Because it is clear that the rejection votes given to the law in question in that party were a method determined by the headquarters to restrain the reaction of the republican base. Özel made the statement, "I and my fellow administrators will say 'yes' to this law with historical consistency and responsibility." The party management will not look favorably on the cancellation case being filed by the NEW Party.
WILL 120 MEPS APPEAR?
Considering that there were a total of 88 rejection votes and 6 abstention votes in the framework law vote, and 30 MPs did not participate in the vote; If someone from the Turkish Grand National Assembly tries to complete the signatures of 120 MPs by adding all of these, maybe that path will yield results.
In the statement of the platform, a call in this direction is made with the statement: "These MPs must also defend their rejection votes, regardless of the number of people who voted against the law during the adoption of the law, open the lawsuit petitions they will prepare for the signature of all MPs, as per their historical responsibilities, complete the number of signatures of at least 120 MPs and demonstrate their will to file a lawsuit. In this way, the opposition will meet on the common denominator of the nation and the unitary state, not in words but in action."
