Kurdish Militants Burn Arms to Mark End of War With Turkey
People hold flags bearing the image of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, in February.
Photographer: Delil Souleiman/Getty ImagesThe Kurdish militant group PKK started laying down its weapons, marking the beginning of a disarmament process aimed at ending one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies.
A group of 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party burned their weapons at a ceremony in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region attended by observers from Turkey, Iraq’s central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, local TV channels showed.