"Terror-free Türkiye" message from Turkish Grand National Assembly Speaker Kurtulmuş: It will be the most important project of the second century

In his speech at the İnönü University 2026-2027 Academic Year Opening Ceremony held at the Turgut Özal Congress Center, Kurtulmuş expressed his satisfaction with being in Malatya.

Stating that he follows İnönü University closely, Kurtulmuş said:

"Inönü University was founded as recently as yesterday. It is now one of the well-established and established universities in Türkiye. It has reached an extraordinarily high level with more than 32 thousand students. We are also a university that has made important breakthroughs in many fields, especially in the field of medicine. I would like to express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this university since its establishment. I congratulate all our friends from the bottom of my heart. I also had the opportunity to come to Malatya twice after the earthquake. I saw that great devastation, "I know those extremely sad days, those difficult days closely. When I come today, we can proudly say that this is the power of all of you, the power of Türkiye, the power of 86 million people, and I am very pleased to see that Malatya, which was destroyed in those great ruins, is now rapidly progressing towards a modern city, a renewed Malatya."

Stating that it was an important success for the cities to recover in a short time after the earthquakes, Kurtulmuş expressed his condolences to those who lost their lives in the earthquake.

TERRORIST-FREE Türkiye PROCESS

Explaining that an important example of solidarity was displayed after the earthquakes, Kurtulmuş continued as follows:

"First of all, we all probably agree that the most burning, most difficult and heaviest problem of the first century of our Republic, the first century of which we have left behind, is our problem related to terrorism. Extraordinarily high prices were paid, tens of thousands of our people died, thousands of our people were martyred, Turkey was faced with a trouble that caused a great economic loss of over 2.3 trillion dollars. Moreover, from time to time, our nation's hopes were destroyed and scenarios of disintegration and division came to the fore in Türkiye. "Very difficult, very difficult times are behind us. We set out to solve the issue of terrorism, which was the most difficult problem of the first century of the Republic of Turkey, and we have left an important milestone behind. I hope we will soon reach the days when terrorism is completely left behind and the memories here, the accumulations here, the acquis are only historical memory for us."

Stating that the process initiated to solve the most important problem of the first century of the Republic's history brought a new responsibility, Kurtulmuş thanked those who contributed.

Kurtulmuş said, "I will divide my speech into two parts. The model we put forward in the first part and that we have brought to this day is a model we call 'Turkey Model'. I say this as an academician, as someone who has been involved in the issue from the very beginning, and we are managing a process that is exceptionally different from all conflict resolution examples in the world, and will be taught as a course in the field of conflict resolution in many universities in the world from now on. This process is the Türkiye Model." he said.

Stating that the Türkiye Model is a national model, Kurtulmuş said that studies are continuing.

Underlining the importance of the process, Kurtulmuş said:

"This issue, which we have initiated based on our own experience, is primarily a concrete result of Türkiye's self-confidence, and this has granted us an extraordinarily strong start. The second fundamental trademark of this process is that this is not an issue that can be brought to the agenda as the political project of one or a few parties that will be confined within the narrow patterns of politics. First of all, it is an issue that concerns every individual of our 86 million people, I am not saying that it is above politics, I do not like that word, but it is an issue that is outside of narrow party politics and with this feature, "It took place as a national issue of Türkiye. In this sense, I would like to express my gratitude once again to all political parties and all social segments that supported the process from the beginning. No group here used this as a political argument, did not make it a matter of discussion of domestic politics, and those who supported this process tried to put forward whatever was in the acquis, based on the question of how it is possible for the process to be successful."