Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commanders and fighters stand in front of a picture of jailed leader and founder of the PKK Abdullah Ocalan during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on July 11, 2025. Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on July 11, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state. The ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from armed insurgency to democratic politics, as part of a broader effort to draw a line under one of the region's longest-running conflicts. (Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)