Overview

• About 30 PKK fighters burned their weapons at the Casene cave near Souleimaniyeh in Iraqi Kurdistan on July 11.
• President Erdoğan hailed the ceremony as “irreversible” and announced a parliamentary commission to steer the post-conflict peace process.
• PKK co-chair Bese Hozat said fighters require constitutional and legal safeguards before returning to Turkey to avoid arrests or worse.
• Fighters reported that Turkish airstrikes on their positions in northern Iraq continue despite the symbolic disarmament gesture.
• The ceremony follows Abdullah Öcalan’s February renunciation of violence and the PKK’s formal dissolution in May.