Kurdish Revolutionary Party
The Kurdish Revolutionary Party , also Kurdistan Revolutionary Party ( Hizbi Shorishgeri Kurdistan , Arabic الحزب الثوري الكردستاني, DMG al-Ḥizb aṯ-Ṯawrī al-Kurdistānī ), more rarely the Kurdish Revolutionary Party , was from 1974 to 2003 the third Kurdish block party in the coalition government led by the Baath Party , alongside the Kurdish Democratic Party (Neo-KDP) and the Progressive Kurds Movement of Iraq .
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The party was founded in 1972 by Abd as-Sattar Sharif , who had belonged to the politburo of the Ahmed / Talabani wing of the Kurdish Democratic Party until 1970 , but then left the KDP because of its rejection of the autonomy agreement with Baghdad. With Abdullah Ahmad Ismail in 1974 and 1976, another former Politburo member joined.
As-Sattar became the party's first general secretary in 1976 and held various ministerial posts in the Iraqi central government in Baghdad until the 1980s. The Kurdish Revolutionary Party, like the Progressive Kurds Movement , the "Neo-KDP" and the Iraqi Communist Party, was accepted into a coalition with the Baath Party , the National Progressive Front , but never reached the mass base of the KDP.
The party last won two seats in parliament in the 1996 elections and held its 14th national congress under the new general secretary Ibrahim Tahir Salam after as-Sattar's flight in 2000 . After the fall of the Ba'ath regime in 2003, the surviving KRP politicians were arrested by US occupiers and their Kurdish allies, effectively smashing the party. Sharif, who returned to Iraq, was murdered in Kirkuk in 2008.
literature
- Erhard Franz : Kurds and Kurdism - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , page 125. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
- Arthur S. Banks, Alan J. Day, Thomas C. Muller: Political Handbook of the World 1998 , 440. Springer, Binghamton 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ brusselstribunal.org: List of assassinated Iraqi Academics (Abdel Sattar Tahir Sharif is number 411)
- ↑ Ekurd Daily of March 6, 2008: Kurdish academic Dr Sharif killed 10 days after he wrote an article criticizing Kurdish leader