In a statement, PDKI calls on the Kurdish people in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan as well as the Kurds in the diaspora to support southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan’s independence referendum on September 25, 2017. In its statement, PDKI emphasizes the legitimate right […]
Since PDKI embarked on a new phase in its liberation struggle in 2015, the Iranian regime has responded by militarizing eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan. In particular, Iran has massed thousands of troops along the border with southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan in close […]
Residents of the Kurdish city of Bane staged a peaceful demonstration today, September 5, 2017, to condemn the killing of Kurdish Kolbars (porters) by Iranian paramilitary forces. In a statement, PDKI’s leadership calls on people in other Kurdish cities to […]
Residents of the Kurdish city of Baneh in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan staged a peaceful demonstration to condemn the murder of two Kurdish Kolbars (porters) by Iranian security forces. The peaceful demonstration was met by brutal violence and several peaceful demonstrators […]
In an interview with Reese Erlich of the Global Post Mustafa Hijri, PDKI’s leader, sheds light on the purpose of his latest visit to Washington DC and the PDKI’s view on the nuclear ambitions of Iran and the rights of […]
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The PDKI struggles to attain Kurdish national rights within a federal and democratic Iran. Since there are other nations in Iran, the PDKI supports their struggle to achieve their national rights and regards them as strategic allies in pursuit of […]
Mr. Mustafa Hijri is the current leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI). Mr. Hijri was born in 1945 in Nagahadeh. He graduated from the Teachers’ College of Agriculture in Urmiye in 1963 and took up a post […]
Urban PDKI Peshmerga units carried out a successful military operation against Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) outside the city of Shno (Oshnavieh). On August 21, 2017 at 21:30, urban Peshmerga units carried out a military operation on the […]
PDKI held its 18th leadership meeting at a secret location in August 2017 due to Iranian terrorist threats. In the meeting, PDKI’s leadership decided to strengthen and expand Rasan – the past years reinvigorated struggle in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan. The […]
The PDKI is a democratic socialist party and is a member of the Socialist International (SI). For us, democratic socialism entails the belief that all human beings, whether as individuals or as members of nations, should be free and equal in all spheres of life. The PDKI’s policies on economic, political and social issues are based on these beliefs. Read more about our policies by clicking here and about our view on democratic socialism by clicking here.