Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party Partî Çareserî Dîmukratî Kurdistan | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | PÇDK |
| Leader | Diyar Garip[1] Necibe Ömer[2] |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Ideology | Communalism Democratic confederalism Jineology Democratic socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Regional affiliation | Koma Civakên Kurdistan |
| Colors | Green |
| Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq | 0 / 325 |
| Seats in the Kurdistan Region Parliament | 0 / 111 |
| Website | |
| pcdk | |
The Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party or PÇDK (Kurdish: Partî Çareserî Dîmukratî Kurdistan), is an illegal political party active in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, founded in 2002. It is part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), along with the larger Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[3]
It has not been as successful as its sister parties, such as the PKK in Turkish Kurdistan and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) closed down PÇDK headquarters and the party was banned in the Kurdistan Region, but it continued to operate.[4]
The party contested the 2005[5] and 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections[6] but failed to win any seats.
The party likewise participated in the parliamentary elections of Kurdistan held on 21 September 2013, winning 3,605 votes (0.18%, no representatives elected). In the approach to the elections the PÇDK had been denied a license to operate due to pressure from Turkey,[7] but in the end they were able to take part in the elections.[5]
On 20 May 2014, members had been taken into custody by security forces of the KDP during operations against different opposition organisations in the cities of Erbil, Dohuk, and Zakho. The operations were justified by the banning of the party some days before, after a demonstration in front of the Kurdistan Region Parliament organised by the PÇDK to commemorate a massacre of PKK members by the KDP in Erbil in 1997, during the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.[8] PÇDK dissolved itself in 2015 and it was succeeded by Kurdistan Society's Freedom Movement.[9]
- ^ "PÇDK yeni başkanını seçti", Cihan (in Turkish), archived from the original on 25 June 2016, retrieved 21 April 2016
- ^ "PÇDK, Irak Seçimlerinde Demokrat Adayları Destekleyecek". Lêkolîn (in Turkish). 2010-02-21. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "Is Turkey crushing Kurdish self-rule in Syria?". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "ANALYSIS: Kurds squabble despite Islamic State threat". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Some Political Parties in Iraqi Kurdistan Still Await Licenses". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "Ocalan v. Barzani: Two contradictory worlds". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ Nikolas Xil Carvalho (2014). "Organizoj de la Kurda Liberiga Movado" (in Esperanto). Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "KDP security forces target KNK, PCDK in Iraqi Kurdistan". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Keskin, Sait. "The Kurdistan National Liberation Movement: Paradigm Change and Transformation from National Liberation to Democratic Liberation" (PDF). Retrieved 7 April 2024.