US EditionKurdish PKK Militants Burn Weapons in Landmark Step to End Decades-Long Turkey Conflict | News Channel 3-12
KURDISTAN REGION, NORTHERN IRAQ, JUL 11 – About 30 PKK militants destroyed their weapons following a decision to dissolve the group and end the conflict that has lasted since 1984 and cost over 40,000 lives.
- On Friday, 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party burned their weapons in northern Iraq to start disarmament aimed at ending a decades-long insurgency with Turkey.
- This process began following a surprise call last October from Devlet Bahceli for reconciliation and was reinforced by imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan's recent appeals for disarmament.
- The conflict, which started in 1984 seeking Kurdish autonomy, has killed over 40,000 people and spilled into neighboring countries, with past peace efforts including secret talks from 2009 to 2011.
- A senior Turkish official called Friday's move an "irreversible turning point," while President Erdogan said it was an "important step" toward a terrorism-free Turkey and rebuilding the southeast.
- Authorities plan to legalize and socially reintegrate PKK militants soon, signaling a potential end to one of the Middle East's longest conflicts, although uncertainties about full participation and ongoing attacks remain.
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PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to launch disarmament
Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) 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 insurgency against Turkey. Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and other guns into a large grey cauldron. Flames later engulfed the black gun shafts pointed to the sky, as Kurdish,…
Kurdish PKK burns weapons to mark end of 40 year conflict with Turkey
In a historic first, fighters from the Kurdish militant group, the PKK have ceremonially burned their weapons, marking the start of disarmament after more than 40 years of conflict with the Turkish state. The event, attended by Turkish, Iraqi, and Kurdish officials, is the first concrete step in a peace process launched earlier this year. The insurgency is believed to have claimed more than 40,000 lives.
In Symbolic Move, PKK Lays Down Arms After Decades-Long Fight Against Turkey
Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters laid down—and destroyed—their weapons in a symbolic disarmament ceremony on July 11 in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. “Today marks the beginning of a new era of Kurdish politics,” Ahmet Turk, a veteran Kurdish politician who attended the event, told the Erbil-based Rudaw news agency. “We’ve had a hundred years of armed conflict, but we believe Kurdish issues should be res…
Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in landmark step to end decades-long Turkey conflict | News Channel 3-12
CNN By Gul Tuysuz and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a conflict with the Turkish state that’s lasted nearly five decades and cost tens of thousands of lives. Politicians and observers gathered for the ceremony held in the ancient cave of Casene near the town …
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