A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency.

Turkey's DEM Party hailed the PKK's disarmament as a historic shift toward democratic resolution of the Kurdish issue. While celebrating this turning point, they demanded the release of jailed Kurdish leaders and emphasized that true peace requires political reform and inclusive dialogue.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met on Friday with a delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) that was in the Kurdistan Region to attend a ceremonial disarmament of a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters as part of peace

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party will meet President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, seeking to move along a peace process between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group. DEM,

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Friday hailed a "new era" following a historic disarmament ceremony at which PKK militants began destroying their weapons after ending decades of armed struggle.

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step in an effort to end one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party will meet President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to push a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, while Turkish media reported the PKK would start handing over weapons in Iraq this week.