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Ozge Genc

Analysis: PKK recalibrates from armed struggle to politics in Turkiye

An armed PKK fighter places a weapon to be burnt during a disarming ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, July 11, 2025 [Kurdistan Workers Party Media Office/Handout via Reuters]

“We voluntarily destroy our weapons … as a step of goodwill and determination,” said senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Bese Hozat, speaking in front of a gathering of the group’s fighters.

The footage, filmed last Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, then shows the fighters – about 30 of them – placing their weapons inside a cauldron, where they were set alight.

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