Iraqi Kurdistan Front
The Iraqi Kurdistan Front ( Kurdish Berey Kurdistani Irak , short IKF ) was an umbrella organization of the opposition parties in the Kurdistan region that was formed on May 12, 1988 . The aim was to form a united political opposition to the Iraqi Baath regime. It originally consisted of five opposition parties, u. a. the two main parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Democratic Party of Kurdistan .
The Iraqi Kurdistan Front played a major role in the uprising in Iraq in 1991 : it took power when Iraqi forces withdrew from northern Iraq . Furthermore, she took over the payment of the administrative apparatus left behind and the preparation of the parliamentary elections on May 19, 1992.
Other members were
- the Kurdish section of the Iraqi Communist Party , later the Kurdish Communist Party
- Kurdish Socialist Party
- Assyrian Democratic Movement
- Kurdistan Workers' Party
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Irene Dulz: The Yezidi in Iraq: between “model village” and escape . In: Studies on the Contemporary History of the Middle East and North Africa , Volume 8.LIT Verlag, Münster 2001, p. 18
- ↑ Asylum report: systematic persecution of Kurds since the 1980s . ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Amnesty International Germany
