The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) may soon begin handing over its weapons in line with a groundbreaking disarmament deal reached earlier this year, Turkey’s ruling AK Party has said.
“I don’t want to give a definite timeline at this stage,” party spokesman Omer Celik told reporters on July 1. “We’ve reached a stage where it could happen in a matter of days.”
Celik added that the upcoming days would be “extremely important for a Turkey free of terrorism.”
Since the mid-1980s, the PKK has waged a violent insurgency against the Turkish state in which tens of thousands of people, including civilians, have been killed….
Kurdish PKK May Disarm Within Days After Decades of Violence, Turkey’s AK Party Says
