Fighters of the Kurdistan Labor Party (PKK), of the armed organization that is characterized by terrorist by Turkeywill begin disarmament with a symbolic ceremony in early July, today (30.06.2025) the Kurdish media reported Rudaw.
“Between July 3-10, 2025, a group of PKK members, probably consisting of 20-30 people, will submit weapons during a ceremony in Suleimaniya,” the second population of Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the source.
The PKK administration has retired to northern Iraq’s mountainous tumors for many years.
Weapon deposit will be ‘a meter of confidence building ‘and’ a gesture of goodwill ‘ reported Rudaw citing two sources in Iraqi Kurdistan.
According to these sources, PKK prisoner Abdullah Ocalan, will issue a new message about the peace process “within the next few days”. Immediately after ‘The process of disarmament will officially begin».
After depositing the weapons, the fighters will return unarmed to their bases. Rudaw has denied the information that may be held in certain cities of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that in the coming days he will meet with a delegation of the pro -Kurdish DEM party, which played a key role in the exchange of messages between Ocalan and Ankara.
The PKK announced on 12 May 2025 its dissolutionending in more than four decades of guerrilla warfare that claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people. It had been preceded by an appeal by Ocalan, which has been imprisoned since 1999 on the island of Imrali, outside Constantinople.
In mid -May, a source from Turkey’s defense ministry said that Turkish intelligence services will oversee PKK weapons collection, With the cooperation of the Iraqi and Syrian forces, but without the involvement of international observers, such as the UN.
The Turkish army has held dozens of positions in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, from which it has been conducting operations against PKK for years.