Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| leader = Diyar Garip<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.cihan.com.tr/tr/pcdk-yeni-baskanini-secti-244176.htm |access-date=21 April 2016 |language=Turkish |title=PÇDK yeni başkanını seçti |newspaper=Cihan |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625053529/https://www.cihan.com.tr/tr/pcdk-yeni-baskanini-secti-244176.htm |archivedate=25 June 2016 }}</ref><br/>Necibe Ömer<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lekolin.org/haber-365-PCDK-Irak-Secimlerinde-Demokrat-Adaylari-Destekleyecek.html|access-date=21 April 2016|language=Turkish|title=PÇDK, Irak Seçimlerinde Demokrat Adayları Destekleyecek|date=2010-02-21|newspaper=Lêkolîn}}</ref>

| founded = {{start date and age|2002}}

| ideology = {{nowrap|[[Communalism]]<br>[[Democratic confederalism]]<br>[[Jineology]]<br>[[Kurdish nationalism]]<br>[[Social ecology (theory)|Social ecology]]}}

| position = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]

| regional = [[Kurdistan Communities Union|Koma Civakên Kurdistan]]

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| state = Iraq

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The '''Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party''' or '''PÇDK''' ({{lang-ku|Partî Çareserî Dîmukratî Kurdistan}}), is a political party active in [[Iraq]]'s [[Kurdistan Region]], founded in 2002. AsIt ais memberpart of the [[Kurdistan Communities Union]] (KCK), italong is seen aswith the Iraqi Kurdish branch of thelarger [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] (PKK).<ref>{{cite news|title=Is Turkey crushing Kurdish self-rule in Syria?|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/turkey-syria-kurds-pyd-ypg-ankara-crush-kurdish-self-rule.html#|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>

However,It ithas wasnot neverbeen as successful as its siblingssister parties, such as the PKK in [[TurkeyTurkish Kurdistan]] and the [[Democratic Union Party (Syria)|Democratic Union Party]] (PYD) in [[SyriaSyrian Kurdistan]]. The [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]] (KDP) even closed itsdown PÇDK headquarters and the party was banned fromin the [[Kurdistan Regional GovernmentRegion]] (KRG), but it continued to operate.<ref>{{cite news|title=ANALYSIS: Kurds squabble despite Islamic State threat|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-kurds-squabble-despite-islamic-state-threat-524744544/|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>

The party contested the [[2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election|2005]]<ref name="Licenses"/> and [[2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election]]s<ref>{{cite news|title=Ocalan v. Barzani: Two contradictory worlds|url=http://kurdistantribune.com/2013/ocalan-v-barzani-two-contradictory-worlds/|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref> but failed to win any seats.

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The party likewise participated in the [[2013 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election|parliamentary elections of Kurdistan held on 21 September 2013]], winning 3,605 votes (0.18%, no representatives elected). In the approach to the elections the PÇDK had been denied a license to operate due to pressure from Turkey,<ref name="rojxavo">{{cite web|url=http://www.nodo50.org/esperanto/Rojxavo_5.htm |access-date=20 April 2016 |title=Organizoj de la Kurda Liberiga Movado |author= Nikolas Xil Carvalho |language= Esperanto |date=2014}}</ref> but in the end they were able to take part in the elections.<ref name="Licenses" >{{cite news|title=Some Political Parties in Iraqi Kurdistan Still Await Licenses|url=http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/290520132|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>

On 20 May 2014, members had been taken into custody by security forces of the KDP, the ruling party of Kurdistan Region during operations against diversedifferent opposition organisations in the cities of [[Erbil]], [[Dohuk]], and [[Zakho]]. The operations were justified by athe prohibitionbanning of the party some days before., The reason for the prohibition wasafter a demonstration in front of the KRG's[[Kurdistan parliamentRegion Parliament]] organised by the PÇDK to commemorate thea massacre of PKK members by the KDP in Erbil in 1997, whereduring 62the members[[Iraqi ofKurdish theCivil PKK were murderedWar]].<ref>{{cite news|title=KDP security forces target KNK, PCDK in Iraqi Kurdistan|url=http://www.kurdishinstitute.be/kdp-security-forces-target-knk-pcdk-in-iraqi-kurdistan/|accessdate=21 April 2016}}</ref>

==Positions and international relations==