Kurdish fighters from the PKK ceremonially burn their weapons in a disarming process:: The PKK decided in May to disarm and end its four-decade struggle against Turkey:: Sulaimaniya, Iraq:: July 11, 2025:: Kurdistan Workers Party Media OfficeFighters were seen placing their weapons in a giant cauldron which was then set alight.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, officials said, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament as part of a peace process.