Kurdish PKK fighters lay down their arms after decades-long insurgency | DW News

After a decades-long fight against the Turkish state and more than 40,000 dead, the Kurdistan Workers' Party – PKK – is laying down arms.
This began with a ceremony today in northern Iraq, with dozens of PKK fighters symbolically burning their weapons. The militants – designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US –have said they will now pursue a democratic struggle for Kurdish rights.

0:00 PKK says it has completed its ‘historical mission’

4:38 Ezgi Basaran, University of Oxford

9:28 DW Turkey correspondent Julia Hahn

14:19 Hürcan Asli Aksoy, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

20:05 Henri Barkey, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington

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Post from DW News on July 11, 2025

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