Kurdistan Toilers' Party

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Kurdistan Toilers' Party حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان
Leader	Belên Ebdulla
Founded	1985 (1985)
Split from	Kurdistan United Socialist Party
Ideology	Social democracy[1] Kurdish nationalism[2] Historical: Socialism
Political position	Center-left to left-wing
Council of Representatives of Iraq:	0 / 328
Kurdistan Parliament:	0 / 111
Politics of Iraq Political parties Elections

The Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Kurdish: حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان, romanized: Hizbî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistan, also known as Zahmatkeshan) was founded in 1985 by Qadir Ezîz and Ebdulxaliq Zengene as a splinter of the short-lived alliance Kurdistan United Socialist Party (HSYK), which had included the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan and the two splinters of the South Kurdistan Movement.^[3] They had belonged to the left wing of the party and had criticized the leadership for abandoning socialism in favor of tribal democracy.^[4]