Journalist İbrahim Varlı, who watched the PKK ceremony, said: "Only the journalists sent by the AKP had phones."

Following nearly 40 years of armed activity, the PKK terrorist organization officially laid down its arms for the first time in a symbolic ceremony held in the Dukan district of Sulaymaniyah, within the borders of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government. Numerous journalists from Türkiye attended the ceremony. Due to heavy security measures, the journalists who traveled to Sulaymaniyah were barred from entering the ceremony area. A group of journalists from Türkiye, however, traveled to Sulaymaniyah by VIP plane, attracting attention.

Speaking to TELE 1, BİRGÜN Newspaper's Publishing Coordinator İbrahim Varlı shared details of the disarmament ceremony. Varlı highlighted the intense security measures and claimed that even politicians were forced to leave their phones behind, while journalists allegedly sent by the AKP were filming the area with their phones. Varlı explained his allegations as follows:

Every step, every phase of this arms-burning ceremony was meticulously planned, calculated, and executed accordingly. The weapons, the presence of 30 people, all have a meaning. Why? At the forefront was a woman, the Five-Eight Person. This has symbolic significance.

There were some critical points highlighted in their texts. We entrust ourselves first to women, then to young people, then to our people, and then to all the peoples of the Middle East and the world. Look, women, young people, our people, our people—these are all matters that require careful consideration.

We truly made a very, very long journey. It took us 12-14 hours to reach the venue of this ceremony from Diyarbakır, but we stayed overnight in Erbil. It's two hours between Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Kandile is approximately 7075 km away. While it's not very far, it's not very close either. They held this in a town between Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, closer to Sulaymaniyah, in the countryside.

"THE JOURNALISTS SENT BY THE AKP HAD PHONES"

We weren't even allowed to take phones with us. There were very strict security measures. But the AKP government sent 56 journalists. They had phones, for example. They smuggled them in. In a place where none of us, no one else, had ever brought a phone in—in a place where not even Ahmet Türk, Leyla Zana, or the DEM co-chairs had been able to bring one in—we were in that ceremonial area. The journalists, whether they were brought by the police or intelligence, or by MIT, or by direct orders from the palace, had phones, and they took photos.

Whoever the intelligence agency was that was under Türkiye's protection had a phone number, and no one was there. There were dozens of HDP members of parliament and co-chairs there. You know, Ahmet Türk, Leyla Zana, and a bunch of other officials from Europe, but no one had a phone number.

Not even the officials there, that is, the high-ranking officials of the Talaban administration who organized that work, were involved because strict security measures were not taken.

You know, that VIP team on that plane? There were six of them, and they were being protected by special personnel. They were probably intelligence officers. We don't know. We were allowed to take notebooks with us. We didn't even have pens and pencils; where we'd brought pencils, someone could easily find phones and other things.

Source: News Center