How will the PKK’s disarmament play out in the region? | PKK News

On Friday, 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) threw their weapons into a bonfire at a meeting in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

After hiding out in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains for three decades, where they reportedly trained for combat and planned attacks against Turkiye, they were now renouncing their armed struggle.

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye,…