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	Kurdistan Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP; Kurdish: Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê or PDK) is a Kurdish political party led by Massoud Barzani.
		The KDP became the leading party in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil.
		The other main Iraqi Kurdish party, the leftist Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, split with the KDP and established a de facto government of their own in the city of Suleymaniya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurdish_Democratic_Party (276 words)

	Kurdish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Kurds of northern Iraq, led by Mustafa Barzani, leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, revolt against the government of Abdul Karim Kassem.
		The KDP attacks Iraqi troops after the government refuses to give them control of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, which was traditionally Kurdish territory.
		The two main political groups of the Iraqi Kurds, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Masoud Barzani (his father and grandfather were legendary Kurdish freedom fighters), and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), headed by Jalal Talabani, begin fighting each other for control of the Kurdish autonomous region.
	www.kurdishvoice.com /history.htm (718 words)

	Lebanon - Kurdish Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jamil Mihhu established the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1960, but it was not licensed until 1970.
		Mihhu, however, supported the Iraqi government against Kurdish rebels fighting in that country, and he was captured and imprisoned by the Kurdish resistance in Iraq.
		Riz Kari was another Kurdish group dissatisfied with the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party.
	countrystudies.us /lebanon/96.htm (238 words)

	frontline: the survival of saddam: the kurds: a chronology
		The KDP, the largest Kurdish group under Mousoud Barzani (the son of the legendary Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani), breaks with the INC after the U.S. government fails to back a planned attack on Saddam's forces.
		KDP troops join the Iraqi Army in an attack on the INC forces based in Irbil, the largest city in Kurdistan.
		Kurdish groups strike autonomy deal with Saddam's government and remain skeptical of the extent to which the U.S. is serious about its support for the Iraqi opposition.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/cron.html (968 words)

	Iraqi political groupings and individuals
		As communist parties were persecuted, a number of leftists joined the party; in response, Chadirchi urged the party to model itself on the British Labour Party, to distinguish itself from Marxists and radical nationalists.
		Participated in "Group of 4" meetings (with INA, PUK and KDP) to coordinate opposition outside the framework of the INC; and established its dominance at the London conference of December 2002, reflected in the scale of its representation on the follow-up committee.
		The KDP militia was estimated by the CPA to have 41,000 active fighters in it (Jun04).
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqiopposition.html (11453 words)

	Middle East Online
		In Lebanon, the Kurdish Democratic Party accused Syrian forces of "massacring the Kurdish civilian population in Qameshli, killing at least 70 people and wounding more than 400," in a statement on its website.
		Several other Kurdish parties, which represent the country's sizable ethnic minority, accused police Saturday of opening fire the night before on fans of Qameshli's Al-Jihad football club before a match against its rival Al-Fatwa.
		Kurdish parties and a human rights association said al-Fatwa supporters thronged the streets, denouncing Kurdish leaders in Iraq and brandishing pictures of ousted leader Saddam Hussein.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=9246 (639 words)

	Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
		The Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) was founded after World War II, as a splinter of an Association for the Resurrection of Kurdistan, the party was practically liquidated when a Kurdish rebellion was crushed in 1966-67.
		At present, the party is led by its Secretary-General, Moustapha Hedjri.
		In the early 1980s a measure of autonomy in the Kurdish areas of western Iran was achieved following clashes between KDPI guerrillas and Revolutionary Guards, resulting in the latter’s withdrawal from Mahabad, Sanandaj and Kamyaran, until a renewed government offensive which allegedly left 1,000 Kurds and 500 government troops dead.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/kdpi.htm (394 words)

	Kurdistan Democratic party-Iraq,KDP, barzani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As far as the Kurds are concerned there has been one outstanding political figure from their perspective behind whom they could have stood united, had they been given the support of the international community to establish their own right to self-determination.
		Mustafa Barzani was the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP).
		Barzani’s willingness to proceed on democratic lines may not have been as far reaching and as precisely worded as UN resolutions on human rights phrased by Western educated bureaucrats but they would certainly have stood more chance of practical implementation.
	www.kdp.pp.se /barzani/dindar.htm (545 words)

	Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
		The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a largely tribal party based in the northern governerates of Dohuk and Arbil.
		The Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), under the leadership of Mullah Mustalafa-al-Barzani, formed in 1946 inside the Soviet occupied land in Northern Iran.
		A failed assassination attempt of KDP leader General Mullah Mustafa Barzani, blamed first on the PUK but later found to be the work of the Baghdad regime, caused the plans for a Kurdish state to deteriorate rapidly.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/kdp.htm (1410 words)

	The Lost Peoples of the Middle East
		This Kurdish distrust of the Arab government of Baghdad is increased by the presence in Kurdistan of many Iraqi police and army posts.
		With the exception of a few Kurdish schools in one region in Iraq, schools in Kurdish villages in that country and in Syria are conducted in Arabic, though the only Arabic-speaking person in the village is the teacher.
		The Arab and Kurdish agents of Imperialism are now trying to exploit this incident to stir up the Kurdish feelings against the Arabs and the Arab feelings against the Kurds; that is to say they are working for the waging of a civil war between the two principal peoples in Iraq.
	www.aina.org /books/lpotme/lpotme.htm (13244 words)

	Kurdish Democratic Party
		Kurdistan Democratic Party is one of the two main Kurdish parties, dating back to 1946, with a military presence in the Northern Iraq.
		Those parties are: the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party, the Kurdistan Socialist Party of Iraq, and the Popular Alliance of Socialist Kurdistan.
		In 1996 it collaborated with the Iraqi army in an attempt to destroy its Kurdish rival, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, but the two groups are not in an armed conflict at the present time.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_kurdish_democratic_party.shtml (149 words)

	"The Kurdish Reawakening in Syria" (April 2004)
		In 1957, the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria (KDPS) was founded by a broad coalition of prominent Kurdish intellectuals calling for recognition of Kurdish national rights and an end to the marginalization of Kurds in the administration.
		Syrian Kurdish activists often received a hostile reception at political conferences organized by the large Kurdish Diaspora in Europe because their activities were seen a threat to the PKK.
		Within days the authorities arrested two members of the party's political bureau, Marwan Othman and Hassan Saleh, on charges of "inciting religious and ethnic discord." In June 2003, Yakiti organized a demonstration by 200 Kurdish children and their parents in front of the UNICEF building in Damascus.
	www.meib.org /articles/0404_s1.htm (4268 words)

	Translated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We appeal to all parties and political forces in the country to give the Kurdish cause the importance it deserves because it is one of the country's major issues...
		That period of the country's life was characterized by the existence of democratic foundations, so that the political parties exercised their activities with complete freedom in the different fields of life and free press was given the chance to play its role in directing and mobilizing the public opinion.
		Also the welfare of our country, Syria, required the formation of our party because conspiracies against Syria and its democracy at that time reached their utmost especially after the announcement of the Baghdad Alliance in 1955 between several surrounding countries whose one of their prior schemes was to topple the Syrian democratic regime.
	www.gulistan.info /html/translated.html (1057 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / 3 Kurdish party officials killed in Mosul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gunmen killed three officials of a leading Kurdish political party in an ambush in the volatile northern city of Mosul, another official of the party said Friday.
		Mosul, a heavily Arab city northwest of Baghdad with a significant Kurdish population, has been one of several cities to see increasing violence in the run-up to scheduled Jan. 30 elections.
		The Kurdish Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani is one of two main factions of Iraq's Kurds, who make up about 20 percent of the population.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/14/3_kurdish_party_officials_killed_in_mosul (155 words)

	Search Tuna Report for The Kurds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kurdish forces aided the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, joining with U.S. and British forces to seize the traditionally Kurdish cities of Kirkuk and Mosul.
		American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) As Kurdish children of this blighted and merciless past, we are fighting to restore justice to our ancestral land, free the largest enslaved people of our times, and build a Kurdistan on the foundation of human, civil, and national rights for all the diverse peoples within it....
		The Cia In Kurdistan The two large parties which were targeted were the two main "Iraqi Kurdish" parties- the KDP Kurdistan Democratic Party and the PUK Patriotic Union of Kurdistan....
	www.searchtuna.com:8004 /ftlive/1259.html (6475 words)

	KEO - POLITICS
		In 1958, the KDP was actually legalized in Iraq, and Barzani was invited to return following the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Iraqi Republic under Qasim.
		The KDP operates a radio station, the Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, which now appears to be broadcast from within the Kurdish territories in Iraq.
		In 1980 the KDP struck an antiBaghdad alliance of convenience with the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP)and the United Socialist Party, and at the end of the Gulf War, with its rival Kurdish political party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/politics/party/KDP-Iq.html (691 words)

	Irbil suicide bombings aggravate tensions in northern Iraq
		With the fall of Hussein’s Baathist regime, the Kurdish parties are pushing for control in the north as their reward.
		The Kurdish parties are demanding that the new Iraqi constitution designate the country as a federation, with the provinces they hold defined as an autonomous Kurdish region.
		The Kurdish parties intend to push ahead with plans to create a single regional government in the north and hold elections next year—regardless of what happens in the southern provinces.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/feb2004/kurd-f05_prn.shtml (1583 words)

	Online NewsHour:Kurds: Enemy Within-- September 10, 1996
		Kurdish Democratic Party troops, backed by Saddam Hussein, marched into Sulaimaniya as thousands fled for nearby mountains and the Iranian border.
		Tareef Aziz represents the Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party in Washington.
		The KDP celebrating in Sulamaniyah is not unique amongst Kurdish factions willing to deal with the devil to triumph over Kurdish rivals.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/september96/kurds_9-10a.html (1304 words)

	Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mustafa Barzani, the Kurdish leader, who possessed not only the love of all Kurds all over the world but also the respect and admiration of even his adversaries, was a legendary hero of Kurdistan who, throughout his life time, had but one goal of attaining prosperity and liberty for Kurds everywhere.
		His support to the Kurdish national liberation movement in Iran boosted the confidence of the leaders of the fledgling republic and that of the whole Kurdish people.
		His Kurdish struggle against the Royal governments in both Iraq and Britain in 1942 and the subsequent events, his contribution in the Mahabad revolution against Iran and his eleven year staying in Diaspora in Russia made him the national hero of Kurdistan...
	www.kdp.pp.se /barzani/barzani2.html (4987 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The truce of 1998 between the PUK and the KDP further came under strain since several thousand PKK fighters moved back into Northern Iraq in 1999, after withdrawing from South-Eastern Turkey, disestablishing the political and military balance in the area.
		A prominent member of the KDP has referred to the PKK as a terrorist organization who is responsible for the massacre of Kurdish villagers along the border with Turkey.
		Iranian conflict with its own Kurdish separatists has not, however, precluded cooperation between Iran and the PUK, especially when the rival KDP has allied itself with the Iraqi or Turkish governments.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/4DDA454EC4278414C12569E4005516D2 (846 words)

	Kurds: Urge International Community to prevent Kurdish massacres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Many Kurdish issues and the Arabization policy being one of them bought about recent protests by the Kurds in front of public offices.
		The Kurds have been demonstrating in front of the Syrian parliament and local government offices demanding equal rights, the removal of marshal laws, democratic reform and for the reversal of the Arabization policies.
		A statue of Hafez el Assad, the father of the current presided Bashar el Assad, was destroyed and the offices of the police, Baath party and the town hall were burnt.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=4777 (496 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> Spotlight -> War on Iraq -> Iraqi forces have abandoned Mosul, say witnesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Looting broke out as Kurdish forces reached the outskirts of the country's third largest city and one of the last strongholds of the Iraqi troops.
		Gunmen, apparently Kurdish fighters, arrived at the Central Bank branch in Mosul and started swinging their guns to force looters to leave.
		He said small numbers of US and Kurdish forces had started entering Mosul to begin the process of taking weapons from Iraqi forces.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usiraqwar/11war.html (512 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Iraqi Kurdish faction to withdraw militias
		The Kurdish Democratic Party has announced that it will withdraw all armed militias from large towns under its control in northern Iraq over the next two months.
		A spokesman for the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said the withdrawal was one of ITS main demands for the normalisation of relations between the two groups.
		More than three thousand people are estimated to have died in fighting between the KDP and the PUK since they fell out in 1994, two years after an agreement was made to share power in the mainly-Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_923000/923685.stm (155 words)

	The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad
		The democratic movement in Kurdistan soon outgrew the Komala structure.
		Muhammed, the leader of the K.D.P., was elected president.
		Kurdish Government in Mahabad had not yet defined its own ambitions.
	www.geocities.com /capitolhill/congress/1881/mahabad.htm (1804 words)

	Our Life and Times: Kurdish autonomy
		The rival Kurdish organizations, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) met for a National Assembly in Arbil in northern Iraq, on Oct. 4.
		Turkey, Iran and Syria which have a history of persecuting their Kurdish populations are also opposed to Kurdish autonomy.
		On Oct. 3, Turkey lifted the death sentence on the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan because they had been forced to abolish the death sentence nationwide to meet European Union human rights standards.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2002/November/Kurds_Nov02.htm (331 words)

	Text: USG-Kurdish Democratic Party Of Iraq October 17 Talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Representatives of the U.S. government and the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq met at the State Department October 17 to discuss the situation in northern Iraq.
		The meeting was part of the U.S. government's continuing contacts with the Kurdish parties of Iraq.
		The U.S. side called on the KDP to take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of humanitarian relief workers throughout KDP-controlled territory.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/state/archive/october/sd31018.htm (276 words)

	Assyria or Kurdistan?
		Although a "core region," which could be "imagined," defined as Kurdistan, exists and in relation to which the Kurdish identity is formed, the boundaries of perceived Kurdistan are always in flux.
		The Kurdish intelligence and high profile individuals have benefited tremendously from the training they received in Israel in the last 40 years or so.
		They presented themselves to the world through that democratic and civilized image (by allocating five seats for Assyrians in their Kurdish regional parliament in northern Iraq in 1992), however, they never stopped oppressing, killing, assassinating, kidnapping, raping, and terrorizing the Assyrians in north of Iraq.
	www.nineveh.com /Assyria%20or%20Kurdistan.html (3413 words)

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