Ankara [ Turkiye ], October 27 (ANI): The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has announced withdrawal of all its forces from Turkiye to northern Iraq as part of the peace process, bringing an end to a months-long disarmament process, Al Jazeera reported.

"We are implementing the withdrawal of all our forces within Turkiye ," the Kurdish PKK said in a statement read out on Sunday in the Qandil area of northern Iraq, according to an AFP journalist present there.

The PKK also released a picture showing 25 fighters - among them eight women - who had already travelled there from Turkiye .

A spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party posted on X that the PKK's announcement falls within the framework of the "Terrorism-Free Turk

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