{"id":260996,"date":"2025-07-11T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kurdish-pkk-fighters-lay-down-their-arms-after-decades-long-insurgency-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:05:20","slug":"kurdish-pkk-fighters-lay-down-their-arms-after-decades-long-insurgency-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kurdish-pkk-fighters-lay-down-their-arms-after-decades-long-insurgency-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish PKK fighters lay down their arms after decades-long insurgency | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ut2vdoLxoJI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdish PKK fighters lay down their arms after decades-long insurgency | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ut2vdoLxoJI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>After a decades-long fight against the Turkish state and more than 40,000 dead, the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party \u2013 PKK \u2013 is laying down arms.<br \/>\nThis began with a ceremony today in northern Iraq, with dozens of PKK fighters symbolically burning their weapons. The militants \u2013 designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US \u2013have said they will now pursue a democratic struggle for Kurdish rights. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 PKK says it has completed its \u2018historical mission\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4:38 Ezgi Basaran, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>9:28 DW Turkey correspondent Julia Hahn<\/p>\n<p>14:19 H\u00fcrcan Asli Aksoy, German Institute for International and Security Affairs<\/p>\n<p>20:05 Henri Barkey, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington<\/p>\n<p>#turkey #pkk #kurdish<br \/>\nFor more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decades-long fight against the Turkish state and more than 40,000 dead, the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party \u2013 PKK \u2013 is laying down arms. 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