Kurdistan Freedom Party

Kurdistan Freedom Party
Founding leaderSaid Yazdanpanah
LeaderHussein Yazdanpanah
Dates of operationSince 1991; 33 years ago (1991)
HeadquartersErbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Active regionsIraqi Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan
Syrian Kurdistan
IdeologyKurdish nationalism
Size1,000 (claimed)
Allies Peshmerga

 Rojava
KDP–I
Komala

 United States[1]
Opponents Iraq[2]
 Iran
 Islamic State
Battles and warsKurdish separatism in Iran
 • Western Iran clashes (2016–present)
 • War in Iraq (2014–2017)
Syrian civil war
 • Siege of Kobanî
Designated as a terrorist group by Iran[3]
Websitepazadik.net
Preceded by
Revolutionaries' Union of Kurdistan

Kurdistan Freedom Party (Kurdish: پارتی ئازادیی کوردستان, romanized: Partî Azadîy Kurdistan, abbreviated as PAK) is a Kurdish nationalist and separatist militant group of Kurds in Iran, based in northern Iraq.

The group has declared creation of an independent Kurdish country as its main aim.[4][3]

  1. ^ "Iranian Kurdish fighters trained by US military against ISIS". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  2. ^ "'We are only 1,000, but we fight like 10,000,' says leader of Kurdistan Freedom Party". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Milburn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ahmadzadeh and Stansfield was invoked but never defined (see the help page).