{"id":4182,"date":"2017-08-19T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/?page_id=4182"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:12:55","slug":"foreign-relations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/foreign-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PDKI-Relations.png?ssl=1\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6543\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/foreign-relations\/pdki-relations\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PDKI-Relations.png?fit=1068%2C544&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1068,544\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PDKI-Relations\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PDKI-Relations.png?fit=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PDKI-Relations.png?fit=1024%2C522&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PDKI-Relations.png?resize=1068%2C544&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"544\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6543\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PDKI\u2019s Department of Foreign Relations is responsible for managing the party\u2019s relations with governments, political parties, organizations, and institutions outside of Iranian Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>The PDKI has representatives in several European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and within organizations and institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, the Socialist International, and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. All PDKI representatives are appointed by the party leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PDKI\u2019s Department of Foreign Relations is responsible for managing the party\u2019s relations with governments, political parties, organizations, and institutions outside of Iranian Kurdistan. The PDKI has representatives in several European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and within organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_r.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P12yuy-15s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6574,"url":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/foreign-relations\/our-representatives\/","url_meta":{"origin":4182,"position":0},"title":"Our representatives","author":"Ali","date":"November 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Head of the Department of Foreign Relations Hiwa Bahrami hiwa.bahrami@pdki.org \u00a0 Australia Salah Pourasad salah.pourasad@pdki.org \u00a0 Belgium Aso Azizi aso.azizi@pdki.org \u00a0 Bulgaria Heshmat Huseyni heshmat.huseyni@pdki.org \u00a0 Canada Esmail Ebrahimi esmail.ebrahimi@pdki.org \u00a0 Denmark Hajar Dashti hajar.dashti@pdki.org \u00a0 Finland Shehin Zadeahmad shehin.zadeahmad@pdki.org \u00a0 France Kani Jihangery kani.jihangery@pdki.org \u00a0 Germany Mostafa Ghazizadeh mostafa.ghazizadeh@pdki.org\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4151,"url":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/about\/","url_meta":{"origin":4182,"position":1},"title":"About","author":"akamr","date":"August 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) was founded in the city of Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan on August 16, 1945. 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