In Iraq, Fighters of the Underground Organization Workers’ Party Kurdistan (PKK) began to transfer their weapons. The symbolic act took place on Friday near the North -Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah.
The transfer is part of the peace process between the PKK and the government in Ankara forbidden in Turkey and classified as a terrorist organization. “As a sign of our goodwill and our determination to help the peace and democratization process to help success, we publicly explain: we lay down the weapons,” quoted the PKK press office about a grouping of the militant association.
Media were only approved very limited. According to reports, the weapons were symbolically burned. The PKK decided in May after a public call for his boss, who had been imprisoned since 1999, to dissolve and end his armed fight for more than four decades.
Symbolic start
According to the DPA information, around 40 hunters participated in the ceremony and handed their weapons. According to estimates, the PKK has a few thousand hunters. This first step is therefore initially symbolic. The Turkish government expects all hunters to give up their weapons by the end of the year.
The process must be followed by the Turkish and the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government in North Iraq. You have to set further arms transport points.
Since the start of the PKK about the rebellion against Turkey in 1984, more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. The purpose of the PKK was a separate Kurdish state or an autonomous Kurdish area in Turkey.
PKK -Head office in Noord -Irak
For years, the PKK has its headquarters in the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq. The Turkish army has repeatedly expanded its fighting against the PKK from Turkish in the Iraqi area and began to build permanent bases in Iraq on the border with Turkey in Iraq and created such a rammed security zone up to 30 kilometers wide.
The majority of the Kurdish population lives in Turkey, but many in Iraq, Syria and Iran. In all these countries the Kurds have an ethnic minority.
Source: Krone
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