PKK, Turkey and Abdullah Ocalan
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Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long
The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.
Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani on Friday indicated that he is willing to visit jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms and disband back in May. However, it is not clear when this process will begin and how long it will take.