Turkish Parliament Speaker Calls for Free Palestinian State with Jerusalem as Capital

Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş delivered an opening lecture titled "Turkey Model, National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy" at the opening ceremony of the 2026-2027 academic year at Batman University's Central Campus Conference Hall.

Kurtulmuş expressed his pleasure at seeing Batman and Batman University achieve serious development. He stated that Turkey, with 208 universities and approximately 6.7 million students, has a large higher education workforce that it can proudly mention everywhere.

“Israel's aggression no longer knows stop or pause.”

He noted that competition among universities is accelerating every year and that universities are rising not only in quantity but also in quality, saying he is pleased with this development.

Kurtulmuş said he tries to explain the point reached regarding Terror-Free Turkey and the experiences lived at universities he visits for the academic year opening.

Stating that the world is going through one of its most turbulent periods, Kurtulmuş said Turkey is located in a geography where all major struggle areas of the world intersect. He emphasized that Turkey must firmly plant its feet in this geography.

He stressed that Turkey has demonstrated the ability to resolve conflicts through negotiation and keep the diplomacy table open for the sake of its own future, the future of regional peoples, and the well-being of the world system.

Kurtulmuş said Israel's aggression does not stop, and that Netanyahu and his group, using the election as an excuse, are committing all kinds of oppression against Muslims and Palestinians not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank.