The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said it is withdrawing all its forces from Turkiye to northern Iraq as part of a peace process with Turkiye, bringing an end to a months-long disarming process following a four-decade armed conflict that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

“We are implementing the withdrawal of all our forces within Turkey,” the Kurdish PKK said in a statement read out on Sunday in the Qandil area of northern Iraq, according to journalist with the AFP news agency present at the ceremony.

It released a picture showing 25 fighters – among them eight women – who had already travelled there from Turkiye.

The PKK, which formally renounced its 40-year armed struggle in May, is currently making the transition from armed insurgency to democratic politics in a bid to end

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