{"id":260914,"date":"2025-07-11T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kurdistan-workers-party-fighters-burn-weapons-in-disarming-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:00:36","slug":"kurdistan-workers-party-fighters-burn-weapons-in-disarming-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kurdistan-workers-party-fighters-burn-weapons-in-disarming-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdistan Workers\u2019 party fighters burn weapons in disarming ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/YgtFMo_pNRc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdistan Workers\u2019 party fighters burn weapons in disarming ceremony\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgtFMo_pNRc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Senior PKK figure Bese Hozat read a statement in Turkish outside the mouth of a cave near Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq&#8217;s north on Friday.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/guardianwiressub<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination&#8217;, she said. The ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the PKK from armed insurgency to democratic politics in the four-decade conflict<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish militants PKK to disarm after decades of attacks against Turkey \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/12\/kurdish-militants-pkk-to-disarm-turkey-abdullah-ocalan<\/p>\n<p>PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after more than 40 years of conflict \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/01\/pkk-declares-ceasefire-with-turkey-after-40-years-kurdish<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. 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Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/guardianwiressub &#8216;We voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination&#8217;, she said. 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