After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its arms. The historic turning point presents opportunities and challenges for both sides.

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region | AFP The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun laying down its arms,

This frame grab from a video released by Rudy TV shows PPK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) fighters during a symbolic disarmament ceremony as part of the peace process with Turkey, in Sulaymaniyah governorate, in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region on July 11. (AP)

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency. The members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party,