According to security sources and local authorities, a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was killed and another injured in an unidentified drone attack close to Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq.
The PKK’s first major military offensive in a few months, which came at the same time as the PKK put an end to its armed campaign against the Turkish state, marked the beginning of its march toward disarmament.
According to Iraqi outlet The New Region, the drone attack struck a motorcycle in the area.
Hemin Ibrahim, the mayor of Penjwen, confirmed that the drone shot two people inside a border village in the district, killing one, according to Kurdistan24.
When they were targeted, the two people were riding motorcycles. He told the news outlet that one of them died and the other got hurt.
The strike started on Saturday morning, Ibrahim informed Kurdistan24.
No organization or nation has so far apologised for the attack.
20 to 30 PKK fighters destroyed their weapons in Sulaimaniyah, in northern Kurdistan, last Friday, instead of giving them to any government or authority.
The symbolic process is expected to continue throughout the summer while being conducted in close quarters.
After 40 years of fighting, the PKK announced in May that it would stop fighting with its armed forces in May.
The Kurdish organization has been labeled as “terrorists” by Turkiye, the European Union, and the United States for the majority of its history.
Between 1984 and 2024, more than 40, 000 people died as a result of fighting, with thousands of Kurds escaping the violence in southeast Turkiye into northern cities.
The disarmament process is praised by Turkiye’s leaders, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan claiming that it was an “important step toward our goal of a terror-free Turkiye.”
Source: Aljazeera
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