Upon the call of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan, a group of Kurdistan Workers Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan-PKK) members destroyed their weapons with a ceremony. 

 

The "Peace and Democratic Society Group" organised a ceremony in Şikefta Casenê in the countryside of Sulaymaniyah. 

  

At the ceremony, a statement was made by the group: “In order to ensure the practical success of ‘Peace and Democratic Society'  process, to wage our freedom, democracy and socialist struggle with methods of legal and democratic politics on the basis of enacting laws for democratic integration, we voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination.”

 

The first images from the ceremony were published.