Party for a political solution in Kurdistan
| Partiya Çareseriya Democracy a Kurdistanê | |
|---|---|
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| Party leader |
Najiba Omar Diyar Garip |
| founding | 2002 |
| Alignment |
Communalism Democratic Confederalism Feminism |
| Colours) | green |
| Parliament seats |
0/111 |
| International connections | Coma Civakên Kurdistan |
The Party for a Political Solution in Kurdistan ( Partiya Çareseriya Demokratik a Kurdistanê , abbr .: PÇDK ; Arabicحزب الحل الديمقراطي الكوردستاني) is a Kurdish party that has been active in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region since 2002 . As part of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan , the PÇDK is viewed as a sister organization of the Syrian party PYD and the underground organization PKK . Compared to its sibling parties, however, the PÇDK was never able to gain significant influence.
The party's chairman is Diyar Garip, who took over from Faiq Muhammed Gulpi in May 2008 at the fourth party congress, and Najiba Omar.
The party is considered a splinter group. In the 2005 elections in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region , she received 0.52 percent of the vote and therefore no seat in parliament. In the national elections 0.062 percent. Even in the elections in 2009, the party could not win a seat in parliament.
On September 21, 2013, the PÇDK won 0.18% in the elections for the parliament of the KRG with 3.605 votes and thus did not achieve a seat in parliament. In the run-up to the elections, the party's license was revoked due to pressure from Turkey, but the party was ultimately able to take part in the elections.
On May 20, 2014, several members of the security forces of the ruling Kurdistan Autonomous Region Party , KDP , were arrested as part of an operation against various organizations in Dohuk , Zaxo and Erbil . The arrests were justified by the party's ban a few days earlier. The party had been banned because it had organized a demonstration in front of the KRG parliament to commemorate the 1997 massacre in Erbil, in which 62 members of the PKK had been killed. The KDP expelled the party from the parliament of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in 2015 and also closed the party's office. The party continued its political work despite these hurdles.
Political positions
Since feminism is part of the party's ideology, the party had the highest number of female candidates of any party in the 2013 general election. According to the director of the PÇDK electoral office, Hassan Judi, one of the party's main goals is that the participation of women does not fall below 50%. In the 2013 election, the party's list was headed by a woman, Najiba Mahmood.
The party rejects the claim that it is a front line organization of PKK fighters, but admits that it shares the PKK's political ideology. The central figure in the left-wing Kurdish movement of the PKK and its offshoots is Abdullah Öcalan . Originally the PKK was a Marxist organization, but reconsidered its basic principles after the end of the Soviet Union . The basic ideology of the party is democratic confederalism , which the PKK also follows and which was developed by Abdullah Öcalan.
International Relations
Even if the PKK is viewed as a terrorist organization in the United States , the PÇDK is not explicitly anti-American. "We used to see the US as the greatest of all imperialist forces. We were a Marxist party striving for a socialist future. But after the Soviet Union collapsed, we started a process of rethinking Marxism and, in fact, our leader wrote Abdullah Ocalan has several books on the subject, "said former party leader Fayaq Golpi. He added that in the era of globalization, realities cannot be ignored. "Instead, we turned to democracy and federalism. After the liberation of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, many things changed - especially the role of the US."
Relations with Turkey are extremely bad because of the links between the PKK and PÇDK. Since Turkey feared that the PÇDK could gain power in Iraqi Kurdistan and turn the country into a stronghold of the PKK even more than it is today (so far the PKK has mainly operated in the Kandil Mountains and on the front with IS ), the Turkish one pressed Government led the KRG to prevent the rise of the PÇDK, which led to the party being denied licenses for the elections and the party office being closed.
For its part, the PÇDK accused Turkey and the ruling party AKP at the end of 2011 of planning a massacre with chemical and other prohibited weapons against the Kurdish people and of fighting without any ethical principles. The party also claimed that "international communities, institutions and so-called democratic states have remained silent in the face of this." She called on the Peshmerga to fulfill their national duty and to protect the Kurds in Turkey from being massacred.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Is Turkey crushing Kurdish self-rule in Syria? . Archived from the original on April 26, 2016 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. . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ↑ Yeni Özgür Politika, May 8, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ broadleft.org
- ↑ Ocalan v. Barzani: Two contradictory worlds . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ^ A b Nikolas Xil Carvalho: Organizoj de la Kurda Liberiga Movado ( Esperanto ) 2014. Accessed on April 20, 2016.
- ↑ Some Political Parties in Iraqi Kurdistan Still Await Licenses . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ↑ KDP security forces target KNK, PCDK in Iraqi Kurdistan . Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ↑ ANALYSIS: Kurds squabble despite Islamic State threat . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ^ Despite Uneven Playing Field, Women Hope for Greater Wins in Kurdistan Polls . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ↑ a b PKK Popularity Grows in Iraq's Autonomous Kurdistan Region . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ↑ PCDK strongly condemns Sirnak Massacre . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
