ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The disarmament process of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could be completed within four months if the Turkish government and all parties cooperate, a senior member of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and part of the delegation involved in the peace

By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a conflict with the Turkish state that’s lasted nearly five decades and cost tens of thousands of lives.