Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his country had achieved victory after Kurdish rebels destroyed their weapons, ending their decades-long armed struggle against Ankara. Friday’s symbolic weapons destruction ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan marked a major step in the transition of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from armed insurgency to democratic politics, part of a broader effort to end one of the region’s longest-running conflicts. “Türkiye has won. Eighty-six million citizens have won,” Erdogan said. “We know what we are doing. Nobody needs to worry or ask questions. We are doing all this for Türkiye, for our future”.
