Washington Kurdish Institute July 31, 2018 Part III of a series on Turkey’s future The history of religion and its institutions in Turkey is seemingly cyclical. …
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Foad Mostafa Soltani (also known as Kak “brother” Foad) was a founding member, and the most prominent figure, of the Revolutionary Organisation of the …
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The Peoples’ Democratic Party began in 2012 as the representative political party of the Peoples’ Democratic Congress, a group of left-leaning, pro-Kurdish social groups …
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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party began as a left-wing Kurdish student organization founded by Abdullah Ocalan in 1978. Initially a Marxist-Leninist and radical leftist party, …
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One of the oldest Kurdish political parties in Syria, the PDKS (also referred to as KDPS) was founded in 1957 as an unrecognized political …
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The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is a left-wing Kurdish political party operating primarily in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Founded in 2003, the …
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The New Generation Movement is a newly founded political party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which was formed in 2017. The party was …
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The Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIK) is a right-wing Islamist party that split from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (a small Islamic party founded in …
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The Kurdistan Islamic Union, colloquially referred to as Yegirtu, is a reformative Islamist party operating in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The group was founded …
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The KDSP is a comparatively small political group that has been active in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2002. It is regarded as the Iraqi offshoot …