{"id":167437,"date":"2025-07-11T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=167437"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:35:59","slug":"pkk-begins-disarmament-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/167437\/","title":{"rendered":"PKK begins disarmament process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark a symbolic first step in laying down its arms, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has hailed the move as “totally ripping off and throwing away the bloody shackles that were put on our country’s legs”.<\/p>\n

Some 40,000 people have been killed since the conflict began, and the PKK is listed as a terror group in Turkey, the U.S., EU and U.K..<\/p>\n