Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
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Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Hîzbî Dêmokiratî Kurdistanî Êran |
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| Secretary-General | Mustafa Hijri |
| Founder | Qazi Muhammad |
| Founded | August 16, 1945 |
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| Membership (2008) | 1,200–1,800 |
| Ideology | Historic: |
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Centre-left Left-wing (historic) |
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Socialist International (Consultative) Progressive Alliance Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization |
| Slogan | “Democracy for Iran, Autonomy for Kurdistan” |
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The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; Kurdish: Hîzbî Dêmukratî Kurdistanî Êran, HDKA; Persian: حزب دموکرات کردستان ایران, translit. Ḥezb-e Demokrāt-e Kordestān-e Īrān), also known as the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), is a militant socialist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, exiled in northern Iraq.
It calls for self-determination of Kurdish people and has been described as seeking either separatism or autonomy within a federal system.
Since 1979, KDPI has waged a persistent yet thus far unsuccessful guerrilla war against the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran, during 1979–1983 Kurdish insurgency, its 1989–1996 insurgency and recent clashes in 2016. Hyeran Jo of Texas A&M University classifies KDPI as "compliant rebels", i.e. rebels that kill fewer than 100 and refrain from killing for more than half of their operating years. In order to gain domestic and international legitimacy, the party has denounced use of violence against civilians, claimed commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Convention Article 3, and as of 2007 is one of the signatories to the Geneva Call's ban on anti-personnel mines.
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