Kurdish rebels are laying down arms after four decades of war. But Turkey’s long peace may be just getting started
At the foot of a mountain in northern Iraq, thirty fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) toss their rifles into a fire. Half of them are women. The scene unfolds at the entrance of a cave near the town of Dukan, about 60 kilometers from Sulaymaniyah.
Nearby stand representatives from Kurdish, Iraqi, and Turkish authorities. One of the PKK commanders reads a statement aloud in Turkish, then another repeats it in Kurdish. “We are voluntarily destroying our weapons in your presence, as a sign…
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