- President Erdoğan signed a law offering a conditional pardon for thousands of PKK militants, but it only takes effect after Turkey’s National Security Council confirms the group has fully disbanded and disarmed.
- The bill suspends certain prison sentences and pauses investigations/trials for 5–10 years (cases dropped if they don’t re-offend); PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and other top figures are excluded.
- The PKK announced it would disband last year and some fighters have already symbolically laid down arms and withdrawn, in a conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives since the 1980s.
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