Kurdistan Democratic Party-Turkey

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The Democratic Party of Kurdistan - Turkey ( Kurmanji : Partiya Demokratie a Kurdistan - Tirkiye, also: KDP-Bakur) was founded in 1965 by Faik Bucak, a lawyer from Urfa , and Sait Elçi, an accountant from Diyarbakır . As a declared Kurdish party, it was automatically illegal in Turkey and was exclusively conspiratorial . Their goal was initially a far-reaching autonomy of the areas inhabited by Kurds in Turkey. Its members were mostly recruited from educated villagers and from the urban petty bourgeoisie. It maintained close relations with PDK Iraq under the leadership of Mustafa Barzani .

In 1969 a wing split off under Sait Kırmızıtoprak (alias: Dr.Şivan), who oriented itself further to the left and aimed for complete independence of Kurdistan . From this wing the "Revolutionary Cultural Associations of the East" (Turkish: Devrimci Doğu Kültür Ocaklar ) emerged, which were legal as a pure cultural association. Since 1975, its illegal branch has been called Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (German: Kurdistan Workers' Party), from which today's PKK emerged through a split under the leadership of Abdullah Öcalan .

Sait Elçi was killed in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1970 under unexplained circumstances; Sait Kırmızıtoprak was accused of murdering him in 1972, sentenced to death by an Iraqi Kurdish court and hanged.

In 1977 the "Partisans of the National Liberation of Kurdistan" ( Rizgarvanen Neteweyên Kurdistan (kurmand.) Or Kurdistan Ulusal Kurtuluşçulari (Turkish)) split off, for whom the mother party was too conservative and too closely connected to the Barzani family. They were the only group besides the PKK that maintained small groups of armed fighters in Turkey, mainly in the Mardin area . Despite political differences, they were supported by the PDK-Iraq and were active until the mid-1980s.

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