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PKK disarmament expected to take months to complete
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq is expected to give up its weapons within a few months following its ...
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PKK Disarmament: A Step Towards Lasting Peace
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) plans to disarm in Iraq, aiming to complete the process within months. Oversight ...
Turkey says PKK disarmament could start within days, says AK Party spokesman
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons "within days", a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK ...
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PKK leader Öcalan releases first video message in 26 years ahead of disarmament ceremony
"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.
PKK to destroy weapons
Due to sensitivities over the abandonment of the insurgency, the fighters will destroy rather than surrender their weapons.
PKK moves towards peace: Ocalan’s historic appeal for a democratic future
It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its ...
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PKK disarmament ceremony to be held behind closed doors for security reasons
A few dozen fighters are planned to destroy their fighters in a symbolic disarmament ceremony. There will be no journalists present and the event will not be broadcast live as part of new security ...
Middle East Eye1d
PKK no longer seeks independent Kurdistan, Ocalan says in rare video
The PKK's jailed leader says in video address that his movement no longer seeks a nation state ahead of ceremony to lay down ...