The statement delivered in northern Iraq by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party , or PKK, follows a symbolic disarmament ceremony held months earlier, where a group of its fighters began laying down their weapons to show its commitment to the peace process .

xQandil: A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in northern Iraq by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party , or PKK, follows a symbolic disarmament ceremony held months earlier, where a group of its fighters began laying down their weapons to show its commitment to the peace process . The group has been waging a decades-long insurgency in Turkey that has led to tens of thousands of deaths since the 1980s. I

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