İYİ Party Chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu criticized the “Framework Law” passed by Parliament, arguing that the government was carrying out the process in a planned and deliberate manner. Dervişoğlu said his objections to the İmralı process were based on concerns that the republican regime, as well as the constitutional and legal systems, would be fundamentally changed, and described the law as a “law of treason.”
Dervişoğlu said the integration of the YPG, an offshoot of the PKK, and the Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian Armed Forces showed that the organization had not laid down its arms. Claiming that the United States was attempting to establish a new terrorist army in the region, Dervişoğlu alleged that the process was aimed not at countering the Israeli threat, but at regime change in Iran and the restructuring of the PKK as an armed element.
Why it matters
Dervişoğlu’s objection positions the regulation passed by Parliament not merely as a debate over a law, but as part of a broader claim of change concerning the future of the republican regime, the constitution and the legal order. This framework reflects an approach that assesses the İmralı process and the status of armed groups in Syria under the same political and security heading. The statements bring to the fore, for those opposing the government’s process, the question of which political objectives the process is tied to, as much as the content of the law itself. However, the claims voiced by Dervişoğlu regarding the organizational restructuring and the aims of external actors contain no detailed evidence in the existing statements, nor any concrete explanation of how the process will work.