Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament as part of a peace process.

The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its decision to disband, should be completed within a few months, a spokeperson for Turkey's ruling AK Party sa...

Öcalan called for the peace process to be monitored by a commission in Turkey’s parliament and urged the DEM Party — which has acted as mediator between the PKK and Ankara — to help advance the talks.