Turdish militants have withdrawn from four camps in northern Iraq as part of a peace effort with Turkiye, according to a media report on Monday (October 12, 2026).
Last year, the PKK — designated a terrorist organisation by Turkiye and its allies — announced its decision to disarm and disband in an effort to end more than four decades of conflict. The group later held a symbolic disarmament ceremony in northern Iraq and announced it was withdrawing fighters from key locations in Turkiye to Iraq. The announcement followed a call by its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
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It identified the camps as Hebat, Yajk, Sabri and Sason and said they were vacated on Oct.
The reported withdrawal from the camps follows the Turkish parliament’s approval in August of a bill that would grant a conditional pardon to thousands of militants. The announcement followed a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Last month, Turkiye said it would gradually withdraw its forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand control to the Iraqi government.
