Kurdistan-Syria Democratic Party
| Partiya Demokrata Kurdistan a Sûriye الحزب الديمقراطي الكردستاني ـ سوريا Kurdistan-Syria Democratic Party |
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| Party leader | Abdulhakim Bashar |
| founding | 1956 |
| Headquarters | Qamishli , Erbil |
| Alignment | Decentralization , federalism |
| Website | http://www.pdksp.org/kurdi/ |
The Democratic Party of Kurdistan-Syria, also known as Al-Parti ( Kurdish Partiya Demokrata Kurdistan a Sûriye , abbreviation PDK-S , Arabic الحزب الديمقراطي الكردستاني ـ سوريا, DMG al-ḥizb ad-dīmuqrāṭī al-Kurdistānī - Sūrīyā ) was founded on June 14, 1957. The aim is the recognition of cultural rights and equality of the ethnic group of the Kurds , who form the second largest ethnic group after the Arabs in Syria . The current chairman is Abdulhakim Bashar . The party is close to the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK) in northern Iraq, led by Masud Barzani .
The PDKS is the largest member party in the Kurdish National Council , which governs parts of northern Syria with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) . She is also a member of the opposition National Coordination Board .
history
Founder and first general secretary of the party was Nûredîn Zaza . As early as 1960, the leadership of the party was arrested.
Due to the pressure exerted by the Ba'ath regime after it came to power and because of conflicts within Kurdish society, the party split into several wings. One radical wing advocated a pan-Kurdish solution, while a more moderate wing advocated equal rights for the Kurds within Syria.
The Syrian Ba'ath Party used the situation to push through its racist Arabization plans in Kurdish areas and was able to achieve many of its goals and render the Kurdish national movement insignificant until the death of President Hafiz al-Assad in 2000.
In 2000, a committee for the reconstruction of the party in exile was established with the aim of reorganizing and renewing the unity of the Kurdish national movement on a democratic basis. In the course of the civil war in Syria , efforts are underway to bring together the various branches of the party.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (al-Parti) In: Carnegie Middle East Center. Retrieved August 17, 2013.