Parastin
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| State level | Kurdistan Autonomous Region | ||
| Consist | since 1968 | ||
| Headquarters | Erbil | ||
| Authority management | Nazhat Hali | ||
Parastin ( Kurdish Parastin 'protection'; formerly Parastin û Zanyarî ) is the foreign intelligence service of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan .
Predecessor organizations were the party intelligence services of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan , Parastin (Kurdish for "security"), and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , Zanyari (Kurdish for "information"). In 1968, both intelligence services were united under the name "Parastin û Zanyarî", but remained two separate organizations.
In 2010, both organizations were restructured into a single state authority and the name was shortened to Parastin .
There is also the Kurdish domestic secret service Asayîş .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gareth RV Stansfield: Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy . 2010, p. 77
- ^ Kurdish intelligence agencies Parastin and Zaniyari will unify . ekurd.net - Kurdish news site; accessed on January 6, 2015.