PKK, Iraq and Turkey
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The Kurdish issue has come “to a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics,” the PKK said in a statement at the time. PKK weapons being destroyed in Sulaymaniyah, northern ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his country had achieved victory after Kurdish rebels destroyed their weapons, ending their decades-long armed struggle against Ankara.
Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand.In a slickly managed ceremony across the border in Iraq Friday, members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons as part of a peace process underway with the Turkish state.