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Kurdish PKK fighters burn their weapons at Iraq ceremony: AFP

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11-07-2025 | 05:02

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Kurdish PKK fighters burn their weapons at Iraq ceremony: AFP

Thirty Kurdish PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in mountainous Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, an AFP correspondent said.

"Thirty PKK fighters, four of whom were commanders, burned their weapons," said the correspondent who was present at the brief ceremony in a cave near the city of Sulaimaniyah in the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.

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