Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu visits a polling station during voting for presidential and parliamentary elections in Istanbul on May 14, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his address at the 17th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Azerbaijan's city of Khankendi, Jul. 4, 2025. (Photo:AFP)
“As a gesture of goodwill, a number of PKK fighters, who had taken part in fighting Turkish forces in recent years, will destroy or burn their weapons in a ceremony in the coming days,” one commander told AFP