PKK fighters burn their weapons during disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan

Описание: 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.

The ceremony was held at the entrance of the Jasana cave in the town of Dukan, 60 km northwest of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq's north.

"We voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination," she said, before another commander read the same statement in Kurdish.

Turkish and Iraqi intelligence figures attended the ceremony, officials of Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, and senior members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party, which also played a key role this year facilitating the PKK's disarmament decision.


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