حزب العمال الكردستاني يحدد موعد تسليم سلاحه

The spokesperson for the Peoples' Democratic Party, which is pro-Kurdish in Turkey, Aisha Dol Doğan, revealed today (Wednesday) that militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will begin handing over their weapons in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq (Friday), as part of the peace process with Turkey. She emphasized in her speech the necessity for the weapon handover process to become permanent through a series of legal guarantees and the establishment of necessary mechanisms for transitioning to democratic politics.

Doğan stated: "Members of the Peoples' Democratic Party will attend the ceremony in Sulaymaniyah, alongside a group of PKK militants," noting that she does not have further information about the process."

PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan announced today that armed action against Turkey has ended, clarifying in a video message published online that the PKK will quickly abandon its weapons.

The Turkish parliament has called for the formation of a committee to oversee disarmament and manage the peace process, while the PKK has called for a complete transition to democratic policies.

Öcalan stressed in the message, which was recorded in June and published by the Furat News Agency close to the PKK, the necessity of creating a decisive political framework for the peace process between the PKK and Turkey.

It is noteworthy that the PKK announced in May that it was dissolving itself, following Öcalan's call, who has been imprisoned in Imrali since 1999, in a statement described as "historic" last February. This was followed by Turkish deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) visiting him in prison at that time, urging "all armed groups to lay down their arms and dissolve the PKK."

Öcalan founded the PKK in 1978 in Turkey, but two years later, he moved to Syria during the era of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.