PKK militants symbolically lay down arms in historic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan

ANKARA — The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought against Turkish forces for 40 years, symbolically laid down arms on Friday in a watershed moment for the peace talks between Turkey and the militant group.

Thirty PKK members, 15 women and 15 men, gathered near the Iraqi Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, burning their weapons in a symbolic ceremony attended by more than a hundred observers from Turkey, including officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy and…