Dear Ms. Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO As the International Mother Language Day on February 21 approaches, we, the Cooperation Center of Iranian Kurdistan’s Political Parties, would like to take the occasion to inform you about the appalling human rights situation […]
Terrorism has been and remains one of the main instruments used by the Islamic Republic of Iran since its establishment to silence internal opposition and to prepare the ground for a further expansion into the Middle East and elsewhere. The […]
On December 17, 1945, the military forces of PDKI overtook the last Iranian military barrack in Mahabad and raised the Kurdish national flag. The Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan was established on the same day. The word “Peshmerga”, which in Kurdish […]
Earlier today, October 12, heavy clashes erupted between an urban Peshmerga unit and Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in a park outside the Kurdish city of Pawa. The clashes erupted at 8.00 AM and continued until 11.00 AM. […]
Today marks the 26th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, former leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Fatah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan – the party’s representatives in Europe and Germany, respectively – and Nouri Dehkordi, a […]
The Cooperation Center of Iranian Kurdistan’s Political Parties, of which PDKI is a founding member, called on the Kurdish people to go on strike to condemn the Iranian regime’s use of ballistic missiles against PDKI’s headquarters and the adjacent refugee […]
In his first televised message to the Kurdish nation following the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile attack on PDKI’s headquarters and adjacent refugee camps on September 8, Mustafa Hijri, the leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), vowed to […]
The Executive Board of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) issued a statement on yesterday’s missile attack against the party’s headquarters and adjacent refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan by the Iranian regime, which was simultaneous with the execution of […]
The Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces issued a statement on yesterday’s indiscriminate shelling of the border region between eastern (Iranian) and southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan by Iran. At approximately 11:00 in the morning (local time) on September 6, Iran’s terrorist […]
Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, or PDKI. The 73rd anniversary of PDKI was celebrated at one of the party’s bases in Kurdistan. Mustafa Hijri, the leader of PDKI, delivered a speech on 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.
