Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant first step toward ending a decades-long insurgency with Turkey.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq - 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 from PKK begin symbolic disarmament in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, ending decades-long battle with Turkiye.

The ceremony marks a fresh turning point in a peace process aimed at ending the militant group’s four-decade-long armed campaign against Turkey.

Fighters from the Kurdish separatist group PKK begin laying down weapons in Iraq as part of a peace process with Turkey.

The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its decision to disband, should be completed within a few months, a spokeperson for Turkey's ruling AK Party said late on Wednesday.

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first concrete step in a peace process with the Turkish state.

We are publishing the full text of the statement delivered by the Group for Peace and Democratic Society during the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) symbolic disarmament ceremony.

Thirty Kurdish PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in mountainous Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, an AFP correspondent said. "Thirty PKK fighters, four of whom were commanders, burned their weapons,

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) plans to disarm in Iraq, aiming to complete the process within months. Oversight involving Turkish intelligence will monitor this transition. The PKK's decision follows a longstanding conflict with Turkey,