PKK

The Kurdistan Workers Party has begun removing all remaining fighters from Turkiye into northern Iraq, marking a major step in the effort to end a four decade conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.

PKK withdrawal strengthens the peace process that Ankara launched last year when officials reopened talks with the group’s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. The move follows the organisation’s formal renunciation of armed struggle in May and the destruction of a first batch of weapons during a symbolic July event.

The announcement was delivered on Sunday in the Qandil region of northern Iraq, where PKK …