{"id":51230,"date":"2025-07-10T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51230"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:19:16","slug":"pkk-disarmament-to-take-a-few-months-in-iraq-turkiye-ruling-party-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/pkk-disarmament-to-take-a-few-months-in-iraq-turkiye-ruling-party-says\/","title":{"rendered":"PKK Disarmament to Take a Few Months in Iraq, T\u00fcrkiye Ruling Party Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its decision to disband, should be completed within a few months, a spokeperson for T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s ruling AK Party said late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to broadcaster NTV, Omer Celik said a confirmation mechanism, including officials from Turkish intelligence and the armed forces, will oversee the handover process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The disarmament &#8230; process (in Iraq) needs to be completed within three to five months&#8230; If it exceeds this period, it will become vulnerable to provocations,&#8221; Celik said on NTV, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK, which has been locked in a bloody conflict with the Turkish state for more than four decades, decided in May to disband and end its armed struggle.<\/p>\n<p>PKK militants are set to begin handing over weapons in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday as part of the peace process with T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p>Since the PKK launched its insurgency against T\u00fcrkiye in 1984 &#8211; originally with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state &#8211; the conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, imposed a huge economic burden and fuelled social tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its decision to disband, should be completed within a few months, a spokeperson for T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s ruling AK Party said late on Wednesday. Speaking to broadcaster NTV, Omer Celik said a confirmation mechanism, including officials from Turkish intelligence and the armed forces, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51232,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51230\/revisions\/51232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}