Senior Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant, Sabri Ok (C), speaks to journalists during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern Iraq, where the militant group announced its complete withdrawal of forces from Turkey, on October 26, 2025. The Kurdish militant PKK said on October 26 it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq, urging Ankara to take legal steps to protect the peace process. The PKK formally renounced its armed struggle against Turkey in May, drawing a line under four decades of violence that has claimed some 50,000 lives.