Overview

• Ocalan delivered a seven-minute video message calling on remaining PKK fighters to disarm and embrace political engagement over armed struggle.
• Twenty to thirty militants are scheduled to descend from the mountains in Sulaymaniyah this week to symbolically destroy their weapons before invited observers.
• The ceremony marks the first practical step following the PKK’s formal decision in May to disband and renounce armed conflict.
• Turkish forces continue airstrikes and maintain bases in northern Iraq as part of security operations against any residual PKK elements.
• Pro-Kurdish lawmakers and Turkish government representatives will oversee the weapons destruction to ensure transparency in the emerging peace phase.