ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) said Tuesday that jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has put forward a new framework to overcome political deadlocks in the country’s peace process, stressing it should be passed before the parliament’s summer recess.

In late May, DEM Party’s Imrali delegation visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on the high-security island, marking the first visit to the jailed leader in months.

“In the last Imrali meeting, Mr. Ocalan presented a new formula and roadmap to overcome the current deadlocks and delays,” The DEM Party's Co-Chairs Tulay Hatimogullari said in a statement on Tuesday, referring to the late May meeting.

The DEM Party co-chair said the jailed PKK leader is “working very hard” to advance the peace process’s “legal basis.”

On Friday, a delegation from the DEM Party met with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and presented Ocalan’s “proposals” in order to move through and conclude the peace process, Ronahi reported late Friday. The statement cited a DEM Party source saying the draft proposal will be shared with the public soon.

“This framework law was also discussed with the AK Party,” Hatimogullari added, referring to the DEM Party’s Friday meeting with the Turkish ruling party.

“Our delegation conveyed our views to the AK Party delegation on the need for the special law to be implemented as soon as possible and the momentum it will provide to the process,” she added.

She reaffirmed how “important and essential it is for this law to be passed before the Parliament closes.”

The Turkish parliament enters its annual summer recess each year, during which legislative activity is paused and lawmakers go on break, before resuming sessions afterward.

In late May, Ocalan warned against any delays to the legal process of the peace talks with Ankara, asserting that there is “no time to lose.”

In February, Ocalan declared the “second phase” of the peace process, concerned with democratic integration into Turkey’s political system, while the first phase was focused on the disarmament of PKK fighters.

Ocalan and DEM Party have repeatedly expressed concern over the lack of concrete measures to establish a political framework ensuring the success of the peace proces.

The far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) of Devlet Bahceli also argued earlier in May that Ocalan’s status should be addressed, and an active role must be given to him to oversee developments in the process.

Dozens of PKK fighters burned their weapons in a symbolic disarmament ceremony in July of 1025 in the Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani province. The group announced it would completely withdraw from Turkish soil later in November of the same year.

The Turkish parliament im February approved a report drafted by the committee tasked with overseeing the implementation of the process. The report called for not labeling non-violent actions and freedom of expression as “terrorism”, and for the reintegration of members who gave up their weapons back into society.