Overview

• Around 30 PKK fighters—15 men and 15 women including senior leader Bese Hozat—voluntarily destroyed dozens of weapons in Sulaymaniyah under Turkish and Iraqi observation.
• The ceremony follows Abdullah Öcalan’s February call from prison to end the PKK’s armed struggle and dissolve its guerrilla forces.
• Turkey’s parliament has appointed a commission to oversee the decommissioning process through September before moving to legal reintegration and reconciliation.
• Subsequent phases will focus on registering former combatants and implementing measures to facilitate their return to civilian life.
• Details of substantive negotiations over Kurdish administrative, cultural and linguistic rights remain undisclosed by all parties.